Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is a luminous, fiercely argued book. It requires deep and…
Competing inequalities
Buddhism
Chinese religions in comparative historical perspective
This short essay draws up the principal ideas from a book chapter concerning the historical field of Chinese religions in…
Buddhism in context
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman interviews David McMahan, scholar of Buddhism and modernity, and author of The…
What is religion in China? A brief history
The complex and ever-changing relationship between the Chinese state and the nation’s religions stretches back thousands of years. While the…
Religion and the environment
Climate change and the environment can be contentious issues, particularly in American politics. Despite political differences, weather events such as…
Buddhists, Time, and religious unrest in Burma
At Religion Dispatches, Alan Senauke writes about Time magazine's July 1st issue and its consequences in Burma.
Charles Taylor and Buddhism
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman writes on how to understand problems in the transmission of Buddhism to…
Buddhism and the practices of contemporary education
Recently, Matt Bieber interviewed Peter Hershock, author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere, for his blog The Wheat and Chaff.
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
Last week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a…
New review of Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, highlighting the place Bellah gives…