Researchers are noting that within the past two decades Americans are increasingly identifying as nonreligious and are reporting an awareness of the secularization of American life. Many individuals who no longer identify as religious and leave their religious communities, calle…
The number of religious discrimination cases has steadily increased over the years (EEOC, 2018a). One under-studied aspect of religious discrimination is religious accommodations. To successfully win a religious accommodation case, employees must prove that they requested an acc…
Premillennial dispensationalism became immensely influential among American Protestants who saw themselves as defenders of orthodoxy. As theological conflict heated up in the early 20th century, dispensationalism’s unique eschatology became one of the characteristic features of …
Sexual intercourse is essential for human reproduction. Yet, to some, sexual intercourse outside of marriage can be a hypersensitive topic, or even believed to be an act only punishable by damnation. Religious dogma deeply rooted in historic texts in many sects of religions, not…
The current study is aimed at investigating the puzzle of why FPI (Islamic Defenders' Front) has chosen to adopt violent strategies within the democratic context of Indonesia. Much of literature on social movements suggests that democracy is inherently nonviolent because it allo…
In this dissertation, I have analyzed the rising influence of Islamic fundamentalist groups in Pakistan in its political, legal, cultural, and violent manifestations. In explaining this rise, I have questioned the widespread academic and journalistic notion that the rising tide …
The patterns of socio/political transformation that Iran went through in the 20th century generated episodes of great ideological divergence within Iran's shi'ite establishment. The current study seeks to shed light on an instance of textual exchange that took place in the earli…
"Drawing on sources in Arabic and Hausa, rare documents, propaganda videos, press reports, and interviews with experts in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger, Alexander Thurston sheds new light on Boko Haram's development. He shows that the group, far from being a simple or static terr…
Under the shade of escalating violence and fundamentalism, our epoch's diffused aura of liberalism supposedly tolerates difference, by exorcising the evil phantasms of totalitarianism, in favour of a liberal and humane post-modem order. Consequently, behind contemporary versions…
