Religion and World Affairs Series
Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, this series of working-papers following seminars given at the Institute is intended to make discussions of key issues in the study of religion and world affairs available to a wider audience. Click below for summaries of these talks.
2017
Achmad Ubaedillah, Civic Education for Muslim Students in the Era of Democracy: Lessons Learned from Indonesia
January, 2017
Love Stories: Youth Aspirations & the New Ethics of Intimacy
October, 2016
Nancy J. Smith Hefner
Laura Tourtellotte
Paniz Edjlali
Jessica Lambert
Jennifer Koester
Carmen Rowe
Dat Nguyen
2016
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Islam in Modern South Asia: Continuity and Change since the Early Twentieth Century
December, 2016
Nader Hashemi, The ISIS Crisis and the Broken Politics of the Middle East
November, 2016
Richard B. Miller, Normativity and Social Criticism in the Study of Religion
October, 2016
Hans Harmakaputra, Interfaith Relations in Contemporary Indonesia: Challenges and Progress
October, 2016
Webb Keane, How Morality Looks from a God’s-Eye Point of View
October, 2016
Brandon Kendhammer, Muslims Talking Politics: Islam and Democracy in Practice in Northern Nigeria
September, 2016
Melani McAlister, Homosexuality and Humanitarianism: The case of Rick Warren in Africa
September, 2016
James Laidlaw, Can We Be Both Modern and Virtuous?
March, 2016
Joel Day, The ISIS Bandwagon:Under What Conditions Do Groups Pledge Support?
March, 2016
Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Indonesian Muslim Feminists: Islamic Reasoning, Rumah Kitab And The Case of Child Brides
January, 2016
2015
Karsten Lehmann, Ph.D., Patrice Brodeur, Ph.D., and Jana Vobecka, Ph.dD., The KAICIID Peace Map – An emerging tool for the understanding of interreligious dialogue internationally
September, 2015
Kikue Hamayotsu, Democracy and Religious Pluralism in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia Compared
September, 2015
Marcia Inhorn, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
March, 2015
Karrie J. Koesel, Religion and the State: Cooperation and Conflict in Russia and China
February, 2015
Rochana Bajpai, Multiculturalism in India: An Exception?
February, 2015
Saadia Yacoob, Marriage to Minor Girls: Intercourse, desire, and the female body in Islamic Law
February, 2015
2014
Yüksel Sezgin, Democratizing Shari’a: The Regulation and Application of Muslim Family Laws in Israel, India, and Greece
November, 2014
Kabir Tambar, Beyond the Minority Question: Founding Violence and Popular Sovereignty in Turkey
October, 2014
Brian Howell, Whither and Whence the Anthropology of Christianity? A Brief Report of the State of the Field
October, 2014
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, International Religious Freedom and the Politics of Religious Difference
April, 2014
John R. Bowen How Liberal can France be? Religion, space, and public order
April, 2014
Paul Freston, Pentecostalism and Politics in Brazil
March, 2014
Toby Matthiesen, Sectarianism in the Middle East
March, 2014
Daniel Philpott, Reconciliation in Politics: How Religion is Reshaping the Global Conversation about Justice
January, 2014
2013
James Hoesterey, Shaming the State_Subjectivity and Islamic Ethics in Indonesia’s Pornography Debate
December, 2013
Michael Lambek, Immanence of Ethics
October, 2013
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
October, 2013