Saba Mahmood
Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley
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Dec 7, 2015 • 1h 26min
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, challenges the belief that secularism is the solution to religious violence. She argues that political secularism exacerbates religious tensions in the Middle East. Mahmood explores the genealogy of minority rights, the influence of Evangelical Christian histories, and the contradictions of secularism. She also discusses the regulation of Baha'i identity, the concept of secularity, and the implications of the Shia-Sunni conflict in South Asia.
Dec 7, 2015 • 1h 24min
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.
