The right to religious liberty is widely regarded as a crowning achievement of secular-liberal democracies that guarantees the peaceful co-existence of religiously diverse populations. While all members of a polity are supposed to be protected by the right to religious liberty, religious minorit..
Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been working for the past fifteen years in Egypt covering issues of Islamic politics, secularism, and gender. She is the author of Politics of Piety published by Princeton University Press in 2005, and co-author of Is Critique Secular? published by the University of California Press in 2010.