Taline Cox

Taline Cox is a program assistant for the SSRC program on Religion and the Public Sphere. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in History with a focus on American Cold War studies and spent several months post-graduation working with UNESCO in Dakar, Senegal before coming to work at the Council.

Posts by Taline Cox:

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Misogyny and the Muslim woman

At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding Mona Eltahawy’s Foreign Policy piece on its prevalence across the region.

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Monday, April 30th, 2012

Mary’s voice

In the wake of controversy over the Vatican’s recent rebuke of American nuns’ activities and announcement of plans to reorganize the Leadership Council of Women Religious, Lisa Miller urges the Church to project Mary’s voice.

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Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Sacred space in Sri Lanka

BBC news reports the ordered removal of a mosque in the central town of Dambulla, Sri Lanka.

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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Cuba

Last week at The New Republic, Carlos Eire reviewed the Pope’s recent visit to Cuba.

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Friday, April 13th, 2012

Neuroscience and free will

Last month, The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a series of articles discussing “what science can and cannot tell us about free will.”

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Ghosts in Antebellum America

At Religion in American History, John Turner, Professor of History at the University of Southern Alabama, reviews two books that evoke the ghosts of Antebellum America.

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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent

Lila Abu-Lughod and Anumpama Rao—editors of Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent, a special issue of SocialDifference-Online—sat down for a conversation with the editors of Jadaliyya.

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Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Changing religious attitudes towards gay marriage

On February 7, 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s 2008 Proposition 8- a referendum banning same-sex marriage- violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and was therefore unconstitutional.

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

CFP: Irreligion, Secularism and Social Change

The Religious Studies Project has disseminated a Call for Papers on behalf of Per Smith in the hope of creating a group within the American Academy of Religion yearly program that discusses topics such as irreligion, nonreligion, and secularism.

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

“On Being” Buddhistipalian with Rosanne Cash

January 5, 2012’s episode of “On Being with Krista Tippet” is a conversation with Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, a singer-songwriter and author in her own right.

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