Phillip Quintero

Phillip Quintero is a consultant with the SSRC's program on Religion and the Public Sphere. He is a graduate of The New School for Social Research with a Master's degree in politics. He is interested in social and political theory and philosophy, and their relevance to applied social science. When not at the SSRC, he does research for the Tobin Project on their Institutions of Democracy program and teaches Critical Reading and Writing at Parsons School of Design.

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Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Marilynne Robinson on religion, secularism, and literature

Joe Fassler interviews writer Marilynne Robinson after the publication of her latest collection of essays.

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Friday, May 11th, 2012

Political and religious groups clash in Bonn

Last Saturday, a regional political rally in the German city of Bonn turned violent as Salafists, followers of a conservative and literalist approach to Islam, fought with police protecting a political demonstration by the right-wing German group, Pro-North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Monday, May 7th, 2012

New guidelines are pending for Islamic financial industry

The AAOIFI, a Bahrain-based regulatory body for Islamic financial institutions, announced that it will revise its guidelines.

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Monday, April 30th, 2012

What is the aesthetic of contemporary spirituality?

At Religion in American History, Michael J. Altman takes a broad look at Frequencies, citing his appreciation of individual posts, comparing the site to indie music, and musing on alternative visual choices that would alter the impact and meaning of the content.

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Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Whose Yoga?

NPR’s Margot Adler reports on the current popularity of yoga in the United States, and its disassociation with Hinduism. She explores the perception of yoga as a form of relaxation and physical exercise, contrasting this with the efforts of the Hindu American Foundation to “take back yoga”.  Some American Hindus claim that something important is lost when yoga is understood narrowly, that is, without the importance philosophy and lifestyle have for its practice

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Looking at religiosity and the Bible Belt

Richard Florida follows up on what exactly the recent Gallup poll on differences in religiosity by state tells us about America. He compares the poll’s findings with his own socioeconomic data, which confirms correlations identified by the longstanding World Values Survey:

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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

CFP: “Radical Secularization?”

September 20-22, 2012, Universiteit Antwerpen will host a conference on secularization theory.

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Rising alternatives to organized religion

In a recent issue of TIME, Amy Sullivan writes of a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and an example of American expats in Mexico that both suggest Americans may prefer to grow their own when it comes to religious congregations.

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Call for papers: CSID annual conference

The organizers of the upcoming annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, “The Arab Spring: Getting It Right,” is currently seeking paper proposals.

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Friday, February 24th, 2012

Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan

Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur’an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February 21.

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