On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
pluralism
Genre, method, and assumptions
More than 60 reviews of The Unintended Reformation have appeared since January 2012, including forums in four journals (Historically Speaking, Church…
Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law
In his new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law, Anver Emon discusses Islamic legal doctrines and their implications for religious diversity…
Conceptualizing pluralism and consensus in the modern Western world
Without pointing out those places where I agree with Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, I would like to add a…
Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage
The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park…
Elizabeth Hurd on reimagining religious freedom as resistance
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, co-Guest Editor of the TIF discussion series The politics of religious freedom, reflects on the sometimes paradoxical…
Genealogy and plurality
Simon During’s essay begins with a taxonomy that is harmlessly at odds with my own classification. He uses the term…
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…
Intolerance in Indonesia
Last week at The New York Times, human rights advocate Benedict Rogers wrote an op-ed piece on the state of religious relations in…
Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age
I want to start with a paradox. In the secular age, as Charles Taylor has amply illustrated, religious belief no…