The State and the Social Life of Islam in Indonesia – Dr. Ismail F. Alatas
REGISTER NOW Relationships between the state and organized religion are commonly explained in secular political terms, whether as politicization or co-optation of religion. Both explanatory paradigms presuppose rigid distinctions between the political and the […]
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On Secularity, Muslim Immigrants and the Post-Lutheran Mindset – David Thurfjell
ABSTRACT Over the last couple of decades, the religious map of northern Europe has been redrawn. In Scandinavia, people previously formed by Lutheran state-church systems have today become among the […]
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ISLAM AND THE SPICE TRADE: PROFIT AND PROPHECY IN THE GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES
Shipwrecks, smuggling, and… Islam? What if we retold the story of the spice trade—oft appreciated as a catalyst for Europe’s “Age of Discovery”—through the eyes of the late medieval Muslim […]
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