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Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918–1960
This article argues for a transregional historical approach to explain the career of political secularism, i.e. the ideas and practices that inform...
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Secularism, Social Work and Muslim Minorities in France
Islam’s increased visibility in France over the past 20 years has challenged social workers, confronted with new practices that often provoke...
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Bengali Identity, Secularism and the Language Movement
Bengali identity is both secular and deeply influenced by religion. The various markers of Bengali identity, like language, culture, ethnicity and...
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Contesting Secularism: Religious and Secular Binary Through Memory Work
The notion of Sweden as a secular nation-state, or rather the linkage between notions of secularism and gender equality, is strong in public...
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Intrinsic conflicts within ethnic and religious issues in France
In contemporary France, there are intense conflicts that involve both ethnic and religious issues. These conflicts provide an opportunity to study...
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The making of religion in secular educational spaces — a view from Jordan
In this contribution, I plead for a thorough engagement with the theme of education when discussing the secular and the religious from an...
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French Youth and Secularism: Towards Social Polarisation
The author examines the relationship between secularism and democracy, pointing two discrete interpretations of secularism that inform current public...
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Ramadan: devotion, compassion, and purification in Sydney
While Ramadan in Western societies has been studied extensively in relation to health issues, no research to date has explored its representation...
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Citizenship, Secularism and Religion: A ‘Triangle’ in Permanent Tension
Born in a family divided by opposite understandings of Catholicism, the author chose first to be a radical social Catholic. He broke with any...
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Shari’a Law in Catholic Italy: A Non-agnostic Model of Accommodation
The Italian Constitution and its interpretation by the Constitutional Court have led to the development of a model of accommodation of religious...
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Unveiling the “Totem”: Haredi Newspapers During COVID-19
This paper focuses on the analysis of the discourse in major Israeli ultra-Orthodox newspapers during the first year of COVID-19. Following Durkheim,...
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We are all Jews
My Sklare Award presentation focuses on the practice and outcomes of our research, discussing some of the less common research methods that we used...
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On the ‘Impossibility’ of Atheism in Secular India
This chapter examines two cinematic representations of atheism in Bollywood cinema and probes the precarious location of atheism as an...
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Masculinities and Racial Terms of Belonging in Post-colonial Tunis
Area studies paradigms awkwardly position the states of northern Africa as African and largely disconnected from much of the continent, belonging to...
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Denominationalism, Secularism, and Multiculturalism in Irish Policy and Media Discourse on Public School Education
A liberal view of the development of the national education system of independent Ireland might see a linear progress from religious education—begun...
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Religious Radicalization in Bangladesh
In the past decade, Bangladesh has witnessed a meteoric rise of radical Islamist groups on the one hand and increasing public display of religiosity...
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The Making of the Bangladesh Constitution
The following is an interview with Dr. Kamal Hossain, a 35-year-old Oxford-educated legal expert, who was the first Law and Parliamentary Affairs...
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Introduction
A vast body of literature has studied the sociocultural background, ideological orientation, and political strategies of women who have been commonly...
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The Crisis of Identity: Bengali, Islamic or Islamist Extremism?
Bangladeshi Muslims—who represent roughly 90 per cent of the population—hold ambivalent views about their national identity, as discussed in this...