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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of difference and claim instead their right to indifference. Some call for indifference from the state, others call for indifference to the state. The author asks: Is there a way to achieve religious equality without addressing the state? Or might indifference entail communal withdrawal, abandoning the ideal...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2018
... . 2015 . Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Marcus George . 1995 . “ Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography .” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 , no. 1 : 95 – 117 . McCants...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
... for what it suggested about anti-Semitism, it may ultimately have been most problematic for what it implied about “Frenchness.” This article argues that the campaign’s polysemy and ambiguity destabilized religious and national differences presumed to be self-evident in contemporary France. In doing so...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and Freedom of Conscience . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press Mahmood Saba . 2006 . “ Secularism, Hermeneutics, Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation .” Public Culture 18 , no. 2 : 323 – 247 . Mahmood Saba . 2015 . Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 277–279.
Published: 01 January 2002
... as Muslims, mak- ing religious difference visible through veiling and other micropractices. “Sec- ond-wave” Islamism, a social movement that has turned cultural, in this way challenges a public imagined as secular and attempts to redesign the borders between public and private. The international...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 11–14.
Published: 01 January 2006
... discovered to be British citizens) or with claims to religious visibility that conflict with fundamental European under- standings of gender and citizenship. It seems that both the republican politics of integration and the multiculturalist politics of difference fall short in face...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... they subtitled. The first aim is the familiar one (to American anthropologists, at least) of making the strange familiar, or at least difference intelligible. The second aim involves exercising a moral thoughtfulness aimed at producing true religious knowledge and thus godly persons. To accomplish both...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2006
... the individual’s responsibility to assent to this knowledge, for salvation hinged upon such assent. Second, Harrison shows that reducing religion to a set of beliefs made it possible to handle the fact of religious pluralism by comparing different...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 233–237.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the holy war — and his religious difference. But Catholic geopolitics may also have opened unexpected theological difficulties on sexual issues. The Vatican has for decades, especially under Cardinal Ratzinger’s dogmatic authority since John Paul II’s reign, opposed new sexual politics, from...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
... a Shia family but spent time with scholars from Deoband, who have several doctrinal and political differences with Shias. This was very much in keeping with the ethos of Amroha, which is renowned for its “communal harmony,” an increasingly rare place where large-scale violence between religious...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 209–221.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... This gives cities speech. Perhaps the most familiar and clearest instances are periods of peaceful coex- istence in cities with sharp religious differences; these make visible that conflict does not necessarily inhere in such differences...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 173–190.
Published: 01 January 2002
... spheres are unsettled, but so are those of the Islamic movement. Indeed two different phases of contemporary Islamism can be distinguished.1 The first phase, starting at the end of the 1970s 1. In speaking of Islamism, we are differentiating between Muslim, which expresses religious identity...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 11–39.
Published: 01 January 1995
... altogether. One notices, in fact, the same attempt to seek rationalization and uniformity as one sees in the case of Hindu personal law or Hindu religious institutions. The crucial difference after 1947 is, of course, that unlike the majority...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 531–556.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... At issue, once again, was a piece of tissue that came to symbolize sexual, national, and religious difference. In the Lille case, however, that tissue was not a veil, but a woman’s hymen — ­or rather its absent presence. This story in certain ways literalized fantasies about sexual penetration...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 313–348.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., this involves a standardizing of capital, infrastructure, and leisure, aimed at replicating the same experience across vast cultural and religious difference. To provide this commonality of experience involves dislodging audiences from the urban place they are in by providing a technical assemblage...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2019
... to its colonial past and postimmigration present, which includes a problematic inclusion of religious difference going back to the emancipation of the Jews (Traverso 1993). Indeed, there is no necessary inconsistency between the racist nature of many of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons and editorials...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2007
... political culture, economic performance, level of corruption, ethnic and religious differences, and the status of military. Most of this is eminently sensible and hardly counterintuitive. However, these recommendations take their orientation...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... regards the veil as a symbolic marker, no different from other signifiers (religious and nonreligious) that represent a Muslim woman’s identity. In my work I endorse neither interpretation, since it is not the veracity of these claims that interests me...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of the shah’s domestic policies — including his authoritar- ian secularism — and of foreign, especially American, influence in Iran. Revo- lutionaries of different persuasions, who might be labeled secular, religious, or neither — our categories fail us here — all opposed the shah’s state-imposed secu...
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 January 1989
... at later, which are cultural differences, religious differences, and things like that. But these are basic marketing differences which required the approach that I just described. So "Coke is It," in my opinion, inaugurated that. "Coke is It" was also the first campaign worked on by this new animal...