A couple years ago, while watching television and rocking a restless infant to sleep, an advertisement for the website ancestry.com…
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Queer faiths: Can conversions uncover and unsettle racialized religion?
October 15, 2015
Journalists, politicians and even scholars in Europe commonly use the word “Muslim” to refer not to religion, but to a…
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
June 20, 2012
Last week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a…
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
April 12, 2012
If you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal…