The work of B. R. Ambedkar has spurred scholars and experts to rethink traditional assessments both the secularization process relationship between religious secular domains. Two generations ago, evoked conversion Navayana Buddhism as an alternative hierarchically ordered caste-based society. Through his landmark essay Buddha His Dhamma, he questioned studies on Dalit communities that saw them ...

Michael A. Reynolds, an FPRI Senior Fellow, is an Associate Professor in Princeton‟s Department of Near Eastern Studies where he teaches courses on modern Middle Eastern and Eurasian history, comparative empire, military and ethnic conflict, and secularism. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)...

BACKGROUND Gender identity disorder and its treatment with sex reassignment surgery is a profound experience, which can affect the mental, interpersonal, social and religious aspects of one's life. METHODS This was a qualitative content analysis study focusing on the various dimensions of the experiences of seven patients suffering from gender identity disorder in a female-to-male subgroup. T...

Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play. It the gradual decline in modernity through implementation principles secularism which has, according Islamic revivalists, plunged world into crisis jahiliyya (unGodliness). Revivalists sociologists such as Anthony ...