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Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018October 4, 2018

How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?

2018 World Cup and Multicultural Belgium

Nadia Fadil
July 12, 2018October 4, 2018

It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.

Drepung monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. It was from here that the 2nd through the 5th Dalai Lama lived and ruled - until the 5th commissioned the Potala to be built.

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness

Anne C. Klein
February 16, 2018

When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.

Gold-Plated Jerusalem

Shaul Magid
December 14, 2017April 17, 2018

In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.

The Sky’s Many Colors

Alice Treuth
October 4, 2017October 5, 2017

The concept that women’s confinement in the home is for their protection was irreconcilable to me. But in our differences we found learning opportunities instead of distance.

Brand Islam: Response to Reviewers

Faegheh Shirazi
March 15, 2017March 15, 2017

Designer clothing brands that cater to Muslim consumers in the Middle East have mushroomed, in spite of the fact that some of this clothing is manufactured in Muslim-unfriendly countries.

From Politics of Piety to Islamic Commodification: Asymmetry and Agency in the Studies of Islam

Slavica Jakelić
March 8, 2017March 9, 2017

While Muslims as believers might focus on halal in the context of the global market as the realm that enables them to exert theological, cultural, and political agency against Western modernity, the impulses that shape their theological orientations and religious acts seem quite aligned with some aspects of that modernity.

Piety and the Logics of Consumer Capitalism

George Gonzalez
March 8, 2017May 26, 2017

Does an increase in everyday piety through “brand Islam” simultaneously and necessarily weaken the authority of Islamic religious institutions?

Loss, Lament and Prophetic Modernities

M. Christian Green
August 30, 2016August 15, 2019

Can prophetic indictment balance lamentation with justice, irony with hope? Read the full article »

Tentacles of the Leviathan? Nationalism, Islamophobia, and the Insufficiency-yet-Indispensability of Human Rights for Religious Freedom in Contemporary Europe

Jason Springs
June 8, 2016August 14, 2019

In multiple cases across Europe, a growing list of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) converges on an apparent consensus: the expanding presence of Islam throughout Europe presents a pronounced challenge to Western conceptions of secular law and human rights. Read the full article »

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