In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education
Recently, Hamline University faculty called for the resignation of President Fayneese Miller following the firing…
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Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
Earlier this year the California State University Board of Trustees unanimously ratified the California Faculty…
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North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks
Though you aren’t likely to read about it on the front page of the New…
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Christianity Today’s ‘Humble’ Hindu-to-Jesus Conversion Story is Still a Story of Christian Triumphalism
When I was a freshman at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, I was…
Read MoreReligious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes
The images of LGBTQ rights advocates celebrating in India—embracing one another, holding rainbow banners, and…
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A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”
Does an anti-conversion campaign threaten India’s secular ideals?
Read MoreIndia’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”
Friday’s landslide election of a controversial Hindu nationalist in India culminates—or threatens to escalate—an ongoing battle over…
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Caste First, Christ Second, for Some Indian Christians
Church leaders have had to admit that Christianity in India is tainted by caste—a strange argument for American Christians, especially evangelicals, who pour millions of dollars into missionary work in India.
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