The stark divide between the sacred and the profane engendered by the Great Separation between religion and politics in the…
church and state
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
CFP: Freedom of (and from) Religion
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies,…
What kind of territory? On public religion and space in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died shortly before the 2012 Meskel festival, the Finding of the True Cross—one of the…
Churches and public schools
On April 3rd, 2014, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld (by overturning the judgment of…
Searching for the church of Islam
Amid the conflict currently underway in Egypt—between state authorities led by the military-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood and their…
Gazing into the future
The efflorescence of religious life in China over the past thirty-some years has been truly amazing. In the rural areas…
Stand still and watch
How will the relationship between the state and religion in China evolve in the next decade, presumably under the leadership…
Governing religion with one eye closed
Everyone in China knows that official religious policy has only a nominal relationship to religious practice. The complaint comes from…
Secular belief, religious belonging
A recent Gallup poll found that almost half of China’s people (47 percent) say that they are “convinced atheists”—the highest…