Some ethnic Swedish students’ discourses on religion: secularism par excellence

Should We Be Charlie? A Deliberative Take on Religion and Secularism in Mediated Public Spheres

The terror attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 serves to explore the role of religion and secularism in mediated public spheres. We argue that deliberative theory, including its recent criticisms and extensions, helps navigate normative dilemmas presented by the attacks. From a deliberative perspective, journalists should reprint Charlie cartoons that are perce...

Discourses of education and constitutions of class: public discourses on education in Swedish PBS television

Eva Reimers, Discourses of education and constitutions of class: public discourses on education in Swedish PBS television, 2014, Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, (35), 4, 540-553. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.871228 Copyright: Taylor & Francis (Routledge) http://ww...

Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity and Cultural Transmission Workshop on Religion, Secularism, and Modernity in Asia

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did re...

Cell polarity: Scaffold proteins par excellence

Par proteins are involved in determining cellular asymmetry. Recent studies have identified one of these proteins, Par6, as a key regulator of cell polarity and transformation via its interactions with small GTPases and atypical forms of protein kinase C.

State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities