At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
Islam
Veiled threats?
At the New York Times philosophy forum, The Stone, Martha Nussbaum asks how philosophical and legal scholarship can help us…
France wrestles with upcoming vote to ban burqa
The popular push to ban the burqa in France lacks clear legality, reports The Associated Press.
Iran’s clerical mobilization
The Iranian regime has decided to further curtail dissident opinion among its youth. A few days after cultural authorities "issued guidelines…
A rhetorical challenge
Criticism from counterterror experts targeting President Obama's recent attempt to curtail the demonization of Islam and Muslims by way of…
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at age 75
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the influential and controversial Lebanese Shi‘i spiritual leader, died Sunday morning in Beirut at age…
Not just a bill to support women’s rights or secular values
On July 13, French parliament will vote on a bill to ban burqa-style veils in the name of gender equality…
Nasr Abu Zayd, a liberal Egyptian Qur’anic scholar, dies at 66
Nasr Abu Zayd, a liberal Egyptian Qur'anic scholar, died yesterday in a Cairo hospital. He had been living in exile…
CFP: “Islam and Religious Norms in the Public Sphere”
The iGov-Institutions and Governance Program of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University…
The “inter-religious” university and the Christian right
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts…