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Balancing Act: Sectarian Leaders in Lebanon

July 25, 2012

by Irina Papkova Last week marked twenty-two years since the signing of the Taif Accords put an end...

Feature

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...

What's more American than church and beer!

July 24, 2012

by Ashley Baxstrom Forget everything you think you know about America.

Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers

July 24, 2012

by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India...are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were...

Of Shrines and Syncretists

July 20, 2012

by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is...

The Globalization of Blasphemy

July 18, 2012

by Austin Dacey The Indian Penal Code was drafted in 1837 by the Indian Law Commission...In their commentaries,...

Review

Let's Get Radical: a review of The Light In Her Eyes

July 13, 2012

by Rachel Riederer It’s difficult for me to conceive of the memorization of scripture as even a mildly progressive...

Bad Sudanese? A "Marginal Revolt" is Underway

July 12, 2012

by Alex Thurston Should Sudan’s protesters topple President Omar al Bashir, I believe the media would get excited, but...

The Philadelphia Experiment

July 9, 2012

by David Halperin All were extraordinary, in ways that did hardly a speck of good for any of them....

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...

Kenyan Muslims Debate Anti-Terror Law

July 7, 2012

by Alex Thurston AMOK turns the logic of the law’s critics around: the bill will not target Muslims but...

Review

Missed Opportunities: a review of "Arab Media"

July 5, 2012

by Narges Bajoghli It's true that mass media have been used (and still are, in some contexts) as a...

Announcements

Call for Applications, Research Fellow

July 2, 2012

We're looking for a research fellow for the Fall 2012-2013 academic year.

Feature

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,...

The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt

July 2, 2012

by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...

Rethinking Mali's Political Culture

June 28, 2012

by Alex Thurston The MNLA and Ansar al Din have dominated the headlines about Mali this spring and...

Atheism as Speech Act: The Ex-Clergy Movement and Confessional Culture

June 26, 2012

Amy Levin: They say there’s a fine line between belief and non-belief, but for those whose job depends on...

How Blasphemy Got Personal

June 25, 2012

by Austin Dacey Fifty-six years before Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses thrust blasphemy into the spotlight of Western...

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

June 25, 2012

by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here...

Review

More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

June 25, 2012

by Abhimanyu Das The Church of England inhabits a unique place in this busy trafficking of religious stereotypes. They're...

Telling Trans-Faith Stories

June 25, 2012

by Becky Garrison A report form the 11th Annual Trans-Health Conference in Philadelphia.

Daily Links: "Where You Been?" Edition

June 23, 2012

Ok, so it's not always daily. But it is more than links.

The Mediation of Meaning, or Re-Mediating McLuhan

June 23, 2012

by S. Brent Plate Meaning is produced by, in, and through social, political, and economic institutions, cultural and religious...

Feature

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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Balancing Act: Sectarian Leaders in Lebanon

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

What's more American than church and beer!

Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers

Of Shrines and Syncretists

The Globalization of Blasphemy

Let's Get Radical: a review of The Light In Her Eyes

Bad Sudanese? A "Marginal Revolt" is Underway

The Philadelphia Experiment

Hey Religion Writers: You're Doing it Again!

Kenyan Muslims Debate Anti-Terror Law

Missed Opportunities: a review of "Arab Media"

Call for Applications, Research Fellow

Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews

The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt

Rethinking Mali's Political Culture

Atheism as Speech Act: The Ex-Clergy Movement and Confessional Culture

How Blasphemy Got Personal

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

Telling Trans-Faith Stories

Daily Links: "Where You Been?" Edition

The Mediation of Meaning, or Re-Mediating McLuhan

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

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