More woman-friendly interpretations of Islam may be penetrating into the grassroots more and more. For example, in an interview, Zakia Nizami Soman of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, “a movement of Muslim women across India struggling for their citizenship rights,” says: Islam speaks of a God who is just. The Quran has given women equal … It’s all in the interpretation

My default view of religion and public life is hard-core secularist: the less our public conversations are conditioned by supernatural beliefs, the better. Having said that, I also have to acknowledge that the current reputation of secularism among political thinkers is ambiguous at best. Many religious people don’t like secularism. That isn’t surprising, but many … When is a religious public sphere acceptable?