Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)

Saba Mahmood, an expert on religious difference and secularism, challenges the belief that religious fundamentalism causes discrimination against religious minorities. The podcast explores the impact of the modern nation state on religious identity, the origins of minority rights in the Middle East, the implications of religion as an individual choice, the regulation of Baha'i religious identity, and the intersection of religious liberty and public order in European court rulings.