Centering the study of American religion with a focus on Asian Americans would complicate a number of well-worn framings with…
Refashioning the frames of American religion research
religious diversity
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Public Life and Religious Diversity
The Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University has announced a new position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Political…
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…
Secular belief, religious belonging
A recent Gallup poll found that almost half of China’s people (47 percent) say that they are “convinced atheists”—the highest…
Varieties of religious freedom and governance
As Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s and Saba Mahmood’s earlier contributions to this discussion remind us, the received wisdom in Western policy…
Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of seventy years of anti-religious policies---of a period in which religious…
Change over time: A conversation with Robert W. Hefner
In this installment of the Rites and Responsibilities dialogue series, I met with the Boston University anthropologist and scholar of…
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
If you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal…
Charles Taylor on secularism
Over at the New Statesman, Jonathan Derbyshire interviews Charles Taylor on his new book Secularism and Freedom of Conscience.
There is no such thing as a monoculture
“We develop in multi-cultural and multi-religious societies. To say this is to state the obvious. There is no religiously homogeneous…