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The Last Twentieth Century Book Club: Deities & Demigods

September 17, 2014

"The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .

Review

Review: Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment by Akeel Bilgrami

July 9, 2014

Anand Venkatkrishnan reviews Philosopher Akeel Bilgrami's new collection of essays: Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment.

Copts in a Revolutionary Age: Egypt's Last Secularists?

March 7, 2014

Jared Malsin reports from Cairo on the political choices facing Coptic Christians in today's Egypt.

In The News: A Muslim girl superhero, Navajo Mormons, Uighurs, Pat Robertson, and more!

November 20, 2013

A round-up of recent religion & media news.

Secular Lebanon

April 22, 2013

From Beirut, Irina Papkova reports on an anti-sectarian movement for a more secular Lebanon, and a marriage that's...

Syria: Stronghold of Secularism? Part Two.

February 11, 2013

In the second of two posts, Irina Papkova, explores Bashar al-Assads assertion that Syria is the "last stronghold of...

Syria: Stronghold of Secularism?

January 11, 2013

Secularism has been a central part of dominant Syrian ideology since at least the 1960s, writes Irina Papkova, but...

Punk Protest, Bad Video Art, and "Religious Insult"

September 27, 2012

by Irina Papkova there's an eerie similarity between the reaction of some Orthodox believers to Pussy Riot and the...

Review

Man Without a Country: "The Myth of the Muslim Tide"

September 25, 2012

by Nora Connor His sociology is methodical, clear and convincing, but he’s bringing a slide-rule and a pocket protector...

The Trouble With "Religious Hatred"

September 4, 2012

By Austin Dacey Opponents of hate speech laws contend that there is no evidence to suggest that the state...

Hey Religion Writers: You're Doing it Again!

July 7, 2012

by Amy Levin For those bizarre folks who follow, track, analyze, or write about religion and media, it is...

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

June 12, 2012

By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...

Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?

June 6, 2012

What’s missing here, and in so many similar arguments, is that religion works.

Feature

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"

Qu’est qui ce passe en France?

September 28, 2011

Ashley Baxstrom: What's up with France? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France joined President Barack Obama here in New...

Be The Next Jesus. Or L. Ron Hubbard.

July 7, 2011

Amy Levin: Huffington Post Comedy recently ended a short and perhaps not-so-sweet competition called “Create Your Own Religion.”...

Tunisia's Secular-Religious Tension Heightens

July 1, 2011

Kathryn Montalbano: In post-revolution Tunisia, tensions between what have been described as secular and conservative Muslim...

Bangladesh (Further) Surrenders Secularism

June 22, 2011

Kathryn Montalbano: This week, the Bangladeshi government has pushed to retain the state's Islamic status, a move that requires...

What is the Public Square?

May 18, 2010

No longer the patch of pounded earth in the middle of town, is the public square the shrinking footprint...

Different Levels of Credibility Between Religions?

May 12, 2010

Hunter Baker blogs at First Things that he is not entirely happy with the way his email...

Liberal Media v. Liberal Media

February 27, 2006

27 February 2006 AP religion writer Richard N. Ostling continues to do his part to dismantle the secular/liberal-media myth...

Air Force Friends

February 13, 2006

13 February 2006 What’s the proper balance between the two constitutional references to church-state relations? If you ask Ted...

Philosophy of Design

January 11, 2006

11 January 2006 Intelligent Design gets set for another trial, with a group of California parents suing a rural...

Thoughts for the Day

January 10, 2006

10 January 2006 “Thought for the Day,” a three-minute BBC segment that, for 36 years, has been allotted for religious perspectives...

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