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Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
by Thomas Alberts...religious ones in a democratic society. * * * Grace: We have been talking about two cases of public religion in liberal democracies: local African religions in South Africa and...
September 20, 2010
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South Park’s politics of religion
by Sam HanSouth Park, long known for lambasting religious groups and celebrities alike (Scientology, thus, being one of the producers’ favorite targets), made some news recently, when it made the portrayal of...
April 26, 2010
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How the Bible Belt came to be
by Charles Gelman...the South. A century later, pentecostal and holiness churches also won scores of followers in Dixie. The movement’s chief denominations are still headquartered in the South. But how did Southern...
January 29, 2010
Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Africa and free/hate speech
January 4, 2019
...and groups, whether minority or majority segments of society, is on the rise as the postcolonial states are increasingly unable to meet citizens’ demands for public services, security, gainful employment,...
January 4, 2019
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America
November 2, 2022
...category are racist because caste is a social issue only among a single ethnoracial group: South Asians. Hindu groups have also criticized Dalit and other South Asian progressive organizations for...
November 2, 2022
Essays
Banning Shari‘a
by Anver Emon...fall into this second category have been introduced in Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, and South Dakota. Tennessee already passed a similar bill in 2010. Importantly, choice-of-foreign-law provisions...
September 6, 2011
Pandemic, religion, and public life
Pandemics in the post-grid imaginary
June 4, 2020
...infrastructure and service delivery. Service interruptions are not merely inconvenient in Lebanon; they are part of everyday life, cutting across class lines but with disproportionate impact on working class people...
June 4, 2020
Mumbai 11/26
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
by Arjun Appadurai...in India, a few from London. But the majority was still in Mumbai, though they now lived in places further away from South Mumbai than before. It was a riotous...
December 7, 2008
Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
In the wake of conscription: Compradors or bricoleurs?
June 15, 2021
...readings of modern and contemporary Arab intellectuals—some of which were made by diasporic scholars from the Arab world and the global South—which, to put things bluntly, disparage their work. The...
June 15, 2021