religion
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Watch: Policewoman hugs a Muslim woman protesting against the burqa ban instead of arresting her
Scroll Staff
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Cult violence and more: We need to stop using the word ‘brainwashed’ to understand people’s actions
Rebecca Moore, The Conversation
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Temples will not create jobs for youth, science will, says Sam Pitroda
Scroll Staff
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As intolerance grows, India needs a brand of secularism that keeps a distance from religion, caste
Kannan Sundaram
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‘Can religious activity be allowed on government property?’: SC refers matter to larger bench
Scroll Staff
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The First Muslim
Scroll
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What Pope Francis’ choice of a Goan-origin Karachi cardinal means for Christians of Pakistan
Myriam Renaud, The Conversation
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Pass that chillum: Why is pot-smoking so common at Sufi shrines and why is it frowned upon?
Hammad Khan
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‘Religion and sport cannot be mixed’: Chess player Soumya explains decision to boycott Iran event
Scroll Staff
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Pakistan’s attempts to secularise qawwali are unnecessary – it has always been pluralistic
Hammad Khan
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The TM Krishna column: Does it matter if Lingayatism is not philosophically distinct from Hinduism?
TM Krishna
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The Catholic Church once reinvented itself after a crisis. Is it time to do so again?
James Chappel, Aeon
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Another side of the Wild Wild Country: What I learnt from my research at Oregon’s Rajneeshpuram
Marion Goldman, The Conversation
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What MM Kalburgi’s writings on the origin of the Lingayats tell us about their demands
Manu V. Devadevan
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In Ghana, mosques have been asked to use text or WhatsApp messages for call to prayer
Isaac Kaledzi, Deutsche Welle
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An anti-caste rationalist, Basava is being appropriated by those whose ideals are opposed to his
Githa Hariharan
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Why every Sufi master is in some ways a Freudian psychotherapist
Omnia El Shakry, Aeon
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Photos: When two 19th-century Sinhalese Buddhist monks travelled to England to join the Church
Malini Roy
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‘I believe because it is absurd’: How Christianity’s first meme came to be
Peter Harrison, Aeon
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In the India of today, would we still celebrate inter-community marriages like they did in 1996?
Dilip D’Souza