...reduced to a political or sociological concept – designating the separation between church and state or the decline of religious belief – this conference aims to explore its meaning from...
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Taking stock of the rage against God
by John D. BoyAt the Guardian‘s Comment is Free blog, Madeleine Bunting offers a stocktaking of the “God debate” since the publication of Dawkins’s The God Delusion. She focuses mostly on publications by...
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Cameron’s multikulti moment
by John D. Boy...is Free, criticizing Cameron’s speech as “muddled,” “dangerous” and “self-aggrandising,” and suggesting that he wants to align himself with the toxic debate in Germany surrounding Thilo Sarrazin’s alarmist bestseller. The...
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Regulating religion
by Grace YukichWhere does the line lie between constitutional protection of religious exceptionalism and the need to enforce state laws ensuring fair treatment of employees? Which religious employees count as “ministers” and...
For Love of the Prophet 
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Noah Salomon
For Love of the Prophet—A reply
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Noah Salomon
...affective dissonance I saw between traditionalist and state-based promoters of “love of the Prophet.” My argument here, however, is that while the colonial state is a necessary, even foundational, element...
Indigeneity and secularity 
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J. Michelle Molina
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
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J. Michelle Molina
...manumission.3Herman Bennett’s study of free blacks dubs this community “the New World’s first culture of freedom.” To work with, against, and between these systems was to be engaged in an...
Is this all there is
Clothing the emperor in medieval garb
by Elayne Oliphant
...the one in which I sat. Both former Cistercian monasteries, they both now house revolving sets of ephemeral contemporary art installations. The key difference between the two is the landlord....
Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
Haiti’s pact with the devil? (Some Haitians believe this too)
by Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
...an influential voice in the American fundamentalist movement, remarked that centuries ago Haitians swore a pact to the Devil in order to gain their freedom from slavery under the French....
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows
The ethic of discipleship in East Harlem
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Civil rights and gay rights, 40 years after Stonewall
by Nathan Schneider...of the first Freedom Rides in 1947, helped to found the Congress for Racial Equality, and was National Field Secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Rustin was among the most...