Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
In reframing the links between gender, kinship, and citizenship, Shaheen Bagh’s protesters are remaking the definition of secularism in India.
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What becomes of religion if its traditional practices and regular forms of gathering are not allowed?
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The question that activist lawyers would like to get before the Indian Supreme Court is, in some ways, a simple one. Is the government allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion?
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I accept the ontology of facts as given: she continues to shop at Walmart in a pandemic because she is protected by the blood of the Lord in which she has been washed.
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Today, from Duisburg-Marxloh to Amsterdam, mosques are singing a prayer across Europe.
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Who are “we the people”? What makes this question puzzling is that it cannot, without circularity, be answered democratically, by appealing to the will of the people.
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In context of rising institutionalization of discrimination against Muslims, Kashmiris fear that Indian settler colonialism and dispossession are becoming increasingly real inside the valley. The question now is: will the world keep silent?
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Though the Hindu and Muslim religious cultures in India and Pakistan offer us fantasies of Kashmir as either a sacred Hindu space or a lost Muslim paradise, the actual Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim religious culture affirms Kashmir as a heterodox and plural spiritual space.
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Things are most interesting, however, at edges, intersections, and boundaries. That is where complexity resides, and that is where the kind of enduring authority that will command the middle can best plant its flag.
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Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.
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