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Learn about the revival of authoritarian politics in Eastern Europe in this public webinar On November 9, 1989, the most iconic symbol of ideological division in the world – the Berlin Wall – came down amid jubilant celebrations in Germany. The end of the wall came to represent the end of the Cold War as…
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After graduating in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1998, Marida Augusto specialized in landscape architecture as a freelancer. Some parallel experiences in editorial, photographic and social domains led her to change her profession and become a freelance photographer in 2010. As a photojournalist, she specializes in editing, exhibition setting and postproduction. Augusto’s…
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A project that explored the histories and genealogies of religious freedom The Politics of Religious Freedom project explored the concepts and practices that collect under the global rubric of religious freedom. Directed by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood and Peter Danchin, it led to several published outputs between 2012 and 2015; these…
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A special issue of Studies in Indian Politics investigates the contemporary struggle to maintain democracy in the country. Democracy is a fragile construct. Nowhere is that clearer than in societies where pluralism and populism occupy the same geopolitical space. The Republic of India is one of the world’s largest nations by landmass. As a polity,…
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An episode of America Abroad documents the challenges Muslims, Jews, and Christians face when their social and spiritual worlds unexpectedly collide What does a mosque converted to a cathedral in the Middle Ages tell us about the complexity of religious life today? What are Muslim and Jewish leaders in the Netherlands doing to combat the…
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When Politics Are Sacralized explores the consequences of using religious claims to fuel nationalist political projects What happens when the competing political goals of nationalists are elevated to the plane of holy principles? How are boundaries made or remade? How is peace secured after violence erupts? How are identities shaped by political actors claimed by…
