Akeel Bilgrami’s paper is very rich; I cannot speak to all its arguments. I focus on his principal concern: his…
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indigenous religions
Rhetoric and authority
January 27, 2011
At Notes from the Social Field, Ernesto Castañeda reflects on President Obama's rhetorical performance in the aftermath of the shootings in…
Native American civil religion?
January 20, 2011
Lee Gilmore reflects on the opening blessing at Obama's Tucson speech last week by Carlos Gonzales, who identified himself as…
The future of China’s past: An interview with Mayfair Yang
September 23, 2010
Anthropologist Mayfair Yang teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has done pioneering…
Politics of misrecognition
May 12, 2010
What would secularity look like if we approached it through the perhaps vague rubric of “indigenous ‘religions’”? . . .…