The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold it's 11th annual conference this Wednesday, April 28, on "U.S.…
U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo
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Obama’s rapprochement with U.S. Muslim groups
Max Fisher at the Atlantic Wire has compiled a set of articles and blog posts around the Web dealing with…
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland,…
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
In my opening post, I suggested that a second assumption underpinning the Chicago Report is that American foreign policy should…
Reshaping Islam’s image with… comic books?
The events of September 11th, 2001, changed the image of Islam for many in the world. The religion that, most…
Tariq Ramadan returns to the U.S.
Last Thursday, Tariq Ramadan addressed his first American audience in over five years. Before a crowd that filled the historic…
Institutional parochialism and the sociology of religion
Recently, Levitt, Bender, Cadge and Smilde have argued that scholarship in the sociology of religion might become less “parochial” and…
It’s all about reconciliation: A conversation with Tariq Ramadan
I had the opportunity to sit for a conversation with the Swiss philosopher Tariq Ramadan at the end of the…
Islam on the rise in Brazil’s favelas
At Shadow and Act, Tambay Obenson posted a video about the rise of Islam in Brazil's favelas. The clip, from…