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Feature

Christian Nationalism and Authoritarianism

October 1, 2024Andrew Whitehead

Comfort with violence and weakening democracy in the name of taking America back for God

Conversation

Reason: A Conversation with Anand Patwardhan

February 20, 2019Leela Khanna, Anand Patwardhan

How Hindu nationalism is threatening Indian democracy

Excerpt

Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide

November 16, 2017Ruth Braunstein

An excerpt from Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide by Ruth Braunstein. With an introduction...

In the News: Reading & Resisting

February 9, 2017

A round-up of recent religion news.

Review

Review: Islam in Liberalism (Part 3)

September 25, 2015

Najam Haider reviews Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad

Egypt's Salafis: Security and Survival

July 16, 2015

Jahd Khalil reports on the role of the Salafi Dawa in Egyptian politics.

The Danger of Winning

March 25, 2013

By Ann Neumann Is a revisionist history of abortion rights being used--by journalists, supporters, and lawyers--to curtail Supreme Court...

"Could People Be Good Without Foundations?"

March 8, 2012

From Andrew Hartman's recent post at U.S. Intellectual History, "The Politics of Epistemology," in which he excerpts the...

Scenes From an Occupation

October 16, 2011

Nora Connor spent the wee hours of Friday morning in Zucotti Park, waiting for Bloomberg to evict the Occupy...

Feature

Organizing Democracy

March 18, 2011

An excerpt from Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America, (Princeton University Press, 2010), edited slightly for...

#Egypt

January 28, 2011

Democracy and Faith

November 7, 2010

From Jan-Werner Müller's article in the November/December Boston Review titled, "Making Muslim Democracies": In the case of Christian Democracy, believers...

The Strange Moves of The Economist

July 19, 2010

By Jeff Sharlet The reverence with which so many upper-middle class Americans read The Economist has always puzzled me. There’s...

Learning from Iraq's Struggle for Religious Tolerance

June 25, 2010

Three months after elections in Iraq, a new Prime Minister has not yet been selected to form a new...

Faith and Trust

May 10, 2010

The nomination of Elana Kagan to the Supreme Court has a few progressive commentators rightly chattering over the...

Daily Links 19 November 2004

November 19, 2004

Crowds Irate at Seer’s Failure to Die A Hindu seer, chief cleric of the Sriguru Ashram in east India,...

18 June 2004 Daily Links

June 18, 2004

In The Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy tallies the influence religion has on “the two greatest democracies on this planet,” squaring the Pledge...