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Old Lands, New Gospels: The Science of Happiness in Uganda

July 24, 2012

by Amy Levin: Ever since Madonna and Tom Cruise carried the banner for Kabbalah and Scientology, respectively, New...

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Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews

July 2, 2012

Intersections of Religion and Media: S. Brent Plate interviews Jolyon Mitchell, Rianne Subijanto, Diane Winston, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu,...

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That's Why They Crucified Him:An Interview with James Cone

June 21, 2012

by Joe McKnight I am sitting alone in this living room with the father of black liberation...

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34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice

June 14, 2012

By Amy Levin We hear about the black vote, we hear about the Mormon vote, but we seldom-to-never...

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Race and Radical Welcome

June 6, 2012

By Becky Garrison According to ABC News/Washington Post polls, for the first time, strong public support for same-sex marriage...

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Hallelujah, We're Born Again!

June 5, 2012

Back in 2003, when dinosaurs roamed the Internet, The Revealer was pretty novel.

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Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

May 21, 2012

Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy By Timothy Byrnes. Georgetown University Press, 2001. 216 pp. by Frances...

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Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

May 18, 2012

By Alex Thurston This is the fourth post in a series on Islamic education in Northern Nigeria. The first post...

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"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

May 15, 2012

This post is the third in a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. The first post gave an...

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Manufacturing Visions:A Review of "The Virgin, the Copts and Me"

May 10, 2012

By Abhimanyu Das Namir Abdel Messeeh's highly entertaining documentary The Virgin, the Copts and Me is a curious beast,...

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The Poets of Srebrenica

May 4, 2012

by Janaki Challa “Countless contradictory analyses have seen the light of day about the ensuing bloody events in the territory of...

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Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

May 1, 2012

by Alex Thurston This is the second post in a series on Muslim education in Northern Nigeria. Read the first...

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Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

April 26, 2012

by Irina Papkova The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state...

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So Long, Rowan Williams

April 16, 2012

What does Rowan Williams's resignation mean for American Anglicans? By Daniel Schultz Word reached us lately that the eyebrows of the...

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The Pope Has Left the Island

March 28, 2012

By Nora Connor Pope...

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Intense Friendliness: Kids, Cults and Criteria

March 15, 2012

by Ashley Baxstrom NYU Local reported last week that city students have...

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Identity, Crisis: Shari'a Law in Nigerian Politics

March 5, 2012

by Alex Thurston In 1999, Nigeria...

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Religion and Real Estate in New York City

February 27, 2012

By Fred Folmer Should religious groups be allowed to worship in New York City public schools? This question is at...

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Boko Haram in National Perspective

February 15, 2012

By Alex Thurston Violence by Boko Haram,...

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Gray Barker, the Men in Black, and North Carolina Amendment One

February 13, 2012

By David Halperin You are David Halperin. It’s 1960, and you’re twelve going on thirteen, and although you’ve noticed for a...

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America's Muslim Anxiety: Lessons from The Third Jihad

February 2, 2012

The past week has witnessed an escalating political crisis within the New York Police Department, sparked by the revelation...

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Books Among Righteous Men

January 20, 2012

By Matthew Shaer Last June, a federal judge in Washington ordered the Russian government to return to the Lubavitch-Chabad...

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Shifting Politics in the World's Newest Nation

December 20, 2011

By Alex Thurston South Sudan, though less than six months old as an independent nation, already faces challenges to its...

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Making Alevism:Lawfare, Secularism and The Secular

December 16, 2011

A response to Markus Dressler's essay, "Making Religion Through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism"

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Old Lands, New Gospels: The Science of Happiness in Uganda

Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews

That's Why They Crucified Him:An Interview with James Cone

34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice

Race and Radical Welcome

Hallelujah, We're Born Again!

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

Manufacturing Visions:A Review of "The Virgin, the Copts and Me"

The Poets of Srebrenica

Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

So Long, Rowan Williams

The Pope Has Left the Island

Intense Friendliness: Kids, Cults and Criteria

Identity, Crisis: Shari'a Law in Nigerian Politics

Religion and Real Estate in New York City

Boko Haram in National Perspective

Gray Barker, the Men in Black, and North Carolina Amendment One

America's Muslim Anxiety: Lessons from The Third Jihad

Books Among Righteous Men

Shifting Politics in the World's Newest Nation

Making Alevism:Lawfare, Secularism and The Secular

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