A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute finds that, while a majority of Americans (56 percent) support the…
Poll finds mixed support for hearings on Muslim radicalization
Islam
Reflecting on the minaret ban
At Georgetown/On Faith, Katherine Marshall, Co-Chair of the SSRC Religion and International Affairs Advisory Committee, reports on how Swiss society…
Mosques in America
In a CNN op-ed, Karam Dana and Matt A. Barreto, SSRC Academia in the Public Sphere grantees and co-principal investigators…
Brigitte Gabriel, Peter King, and the scrutiny of American Muslims
New York Times national religion correspondent Laurie Goodstein has written a bio/exposé piece on Brigitte Gabriel: "Through her books, media…
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh…
Religion and the emerging transnational Arab public
In the SSRC's Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum, Seyla Benhabib considers the recent and ongoing uprisings in the…
Post-secular development
For most of the second half of the twentieth century development was assumed to be consonant with modernity and its…
Revolution and women’s rights
Tuesday marked the first day of the 55th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting. …
A Muslim revolution in Egypt
News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim…
Thinking about revolution, religion, and Egypt with Talal Asad
Reflecting on the consequences of the recent events in Egypt for the theory of religion, Carl Raschke writes that the…