In The Future of Religious Freedom, editor Allen D. Hertzke assembles a diverse team of international scholars to not only determine the current status of religious freedom in the world but also understand the prospects for improvement.
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December 13th, 2012
Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs
posted by The EditorsA central source of support for the Social Science Research Council’s program on religion and the public sphere (including ongoing support for the efforts of The Immanent Frame), the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs ”seeks to deepen understanding of religion as a critical but often neglected dimension of national and international policies and politics.” [...]
November 15th, 2012
Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
posted by Wei ZhuThe Los Angeles Review of Books recently reviewed TIF editor-at-large Kathryn Lofton’s book Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon.
October 16th, 2012
Religion and the Political Imagination
posted by The EditorsReligion and the Political Imagination is a volume, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, that brings together a group of historians and political scientists to take a new look at the theoretical and constitutional aspects of relations between religion and political institutions since the Enlightenment, in particular the theory of secularization that arose during this period.
September 21st, 2012
American secularism
posted by Phillip QuinteroSalon has published an excerpt from a new book, How to Be Secular, where the author, Jacques Berlinerblau, diagnoses problematic connotations that have come to be associated with secularism in the United States and considers competing accounts of the history of the concept.
August 6th, 2012
Contextualising Jihadi Thought
posted by The EditorsIn the recent publication, Contextualising Jihadi Thought, editors Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi compile cross-disciplinary analysis on the concept of jihadism and its impact on Middle Eastern, South Asian, and European countries.
July 17th, 2012
Martha Nussbaum on religion, tolerance, and feminism
posted by Candice ScharfRecently, David Johnson, Web Editor at the Boston Review, interviewed Martha Nussbaum and discussed her new publication, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age.
July 17th, 2012
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
posted by The EditorsIn his new publication, Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa, David Chidester explores South African indigenous religious heritage and the meaning and power of this religion in a changing South African society.
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