The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of…
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
diversity
Interreligious organizing is messy
Religious progressives are a fractious family, making it difficult to adopt and adapt many of the successful strategies of the…
Complicit scholarship
As participants in the academic project, we must ask: How are we complicit in maintaining the whiteness and maleness of…
Boundaries of Toleration
In Boundaries of Toleration, editors Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor ask: "How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic…
Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law
In his new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law, Anver Emon discusses Islamic legal doctrines and their implications for religious diversity…
Is religion free?
To this stimulating and learned series of posts I cannot add much about the genealogy of religious freedom or its…
Public religions and the postsecular
The latest issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion contains the presidential address of British sociologist James Beckford. In it, Beckford…
Beyond moderate secularism
For Modood, moderate secularism can and should go on more or less as it is, but, in order to accommodate…