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The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
by Grace Yukich and John-Harmen Valk...types of international gatherings are for exploring themes of secularism and religion. Political theorist Rajeev Bhargava, one of the senior scholars, outlined distinctions between various models of secularism and highlighted...
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
...own Muslim faith and scholarship). The creative mixing of practices is born out of a history and lived experience of dislocation and liminality—an existence that is between borders, between races,...
Teaching with The Immanent Frame
...the site might serve better as a teaching tool—please share your reflections in the comments section or write to the editors at ifblog@ssrc.org. Comments will be monitored by the editors....
Anti-blasphemy measures pass at the UN
by Nathan Schneider...way, critics believe, for international legitimation of laws restricting free speech and freedom of religion. It also raises interesting questions about whether religions, as such, possess legal rights, according to...
Religious freedom as crisis claims
by Nandini Chatterjee...arising out of this disability a criminal offence. At the same time, the Indian Constitution guaranteed freedom of religious belief and practice under Article 25 and autonomy of religious institutions...
The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
...Second, I am intrigued by Saitō’s connection between corporate ideology and effective microorganisms. I always associated effective microorganisms with alternative agricultural practices: the “natural farming” and permaculture promoted by Fukuoka...
Will Oprah Winfrey save us all?
by Deirdre English...iconoclast than an icon; a free-thinker, cultural feminist, and a liberal. She is African American, of course, was raised in deep rural poverty, and proclaims that she carries Sojourner Truth...
On democratic despond
by Ebenezer Obadare...in Nigeria do not have the capacity to diagnose simple ailments, regularly misdiagnose, lack qualified medical personnel, and are riddled by corruption. There is no better illustration of the distrust...
Evangelical sexperiment
by Nicole Greenfield...we do not normally think together: evangelical Christianity, and the embrace of a shame-free sexual life. But the astonishing and utterly unreflective modernness of some of what Young proposes, coupled...












