Tag: America
WikiLeaks and the Sacrality of American National Security
This post originally appeared at Religion Nerd. It seems like everyday a new story emerges from the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks. In the wake of Cablegate,... Read MoreDoes Stephen Prothero read SoF?
This post recommends and responds to a recent blog post by Stephen Prothero on CNN's Belief Blog.... Read MoreMuslims Become Integral to American Seminaries
This article was originally published on the Common Ground News Service in five languages. Seminaries, higher education institutions where professors of religion and religious leaders train students t... Read MoreWhy We Fight
This semester I’m teaching an undergraduate seminar course titled Faith and Political Violence: Perspectives on Religion and Terror in Modern Politics. With Thanksgiving around the corner and studen... Read MorePresident Obama, Minority Religions, and American Politics
I recently attended a Diwali celebration in Connecticut. The event secured the major essentials of a second generation, Indian-American function: a late start [working to our advantage], a troupe of... Read MoreBabri Masjid, Park51, and the Possibilities of Sacred Space
Many people in university chaplaincy must have asked the same questions that gripped me in starting this academic year at the height of the Park51 controversy. How do we convert this situation into ... Read MoreFormations of Religion, or, Putting Scare Quotes Around Religion
John Lennon asked us to imagine a world without religion. But I would argue we have imagined religion into the world. Not the beliefs, practices, or traditions we call “religions.” I mean ... Read More- 13 of 13
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