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 ### Other media ###
+Ali, Lorraine. 2010. “For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges.” The New York Times, June 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/fashion/13veil.html.
-## Key ideas for this week ##
+Cohn, Nate. 2015. “Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian.” The New York Times, May 12. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/big-drop-in-share-of-americans-calling-themselves-christian.html.
-- The Islamic Revival
+Eltahawy, Mona. 2015. “My Unveiling Ceremony.” The New York Times, April 10. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/opinion/mona-eltahawy-my-unveiling-ceremony.html.
-- The Moral Majority
-- Asad
-- Mahmood
-- Muslim feminism
+Liptak, Adam. 2015. “Muslim Woman Denied Job Over Head Scarf Wins in Supreme Court.” The New York Times, June 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/us/supreme-court-rules-in-samantha-elauf-abercrombie-fitch-case.html.
+Perez, Michael. 2014. “Does a Women-Only Pool Mean Segregation? Not Quite.” The Islamic Monthly. March 30. http://theislamicmonthly.com/does-a-woman-only-pool-mean-segregation/.
+Scott, Joan Wallach. 2008. “Gender Equality and Islamic Headscarves.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere, February 10. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/10/gender-equality-and-islamic-headscarves/.
+## Questions of religion, atheism, and secularism ##
+In many parts of the world, religions seems to be on the decline.
+* In Australia, 65.3% say religion is 'not very important' or 'not at
+  all important' (World Values Survey 2014).
+* In Scandinavian countries, 60% of people say religion is unimportant (ibid.).
+* In some Western European countries, notably France, 40-30% of people
+  profess no belief in any God, spirit, or life force (Eurobarometer 2010).
+* In these same countries, over half do not attend any religious service.
+## Questions of religion, atheism, and secularism ##
+In other parts of the world, religious identity seems to have a new prominence.
+* The "Islamic Revival" in the Middle East and other Muslim-majority
+  countries.
+* The revival of Orthodox Christianity in former Soviet states.
+* The house church movement in China, and a general revival of
+  interest in religious practice.
+* The growth of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa.
+## Religion and social change: A two-way street ##
+Based on Weber's ideas about religion and change, he predicted that as
+society became more complex, and its division of labor became more
+specialized and rational, religion would become restricted to certain
+areas of life, and many areas of life would be completely secular and
+indifferent to religious ideas. This has become **the secularization
+thesis**.
+A **thesis statement** is one possible answer among many to a
+**research question**.
+There are two pretty obvious problems with this thesis:
+* Is it based on a flawed assumption about social change.
+* It really doesn't look at all the relevant changes in this area,
+  only the decline of religious observance among some people.
+In short, the secularization thesis is wrong, but then again, we can
+see now that it was really asking the wrong question. Sociology is
+still recoving from this.
+## Secularism ##
+Secularism means neutrality with respect to religion, and the absence
+of religious influence. Specifically, one normally associates this
+concept with:
+* The separation of church and state, or official neutrality on religion.
+* One's religion is private matter, and does not affect other roles.
+* One has freedom to worship and freedom of belief.
+* In some cases, religious expression of any kind is banned in some
+  areas of life, e.g. in French public schools. French secularism is
+  better known as laïcité.
+## Why is secularism and religion so problematic? ##
+- France: Headscarf controversies, 1989-1994 (Jones 2009); burqa ban, 2014.
+- Australia: Ban of face coverings in the gallery of Federal Parliament, 2014.
+- US: Sultaana Freeman denied a Florida driver's license, 2002.
+- Turkey: Ban on headscarves in universities lifted, 2008.
+## Freedom of conscience ##
+The freedom of belief, thought, or conscience has historically had two elements in international law (Slotte 2010, ):
+* forum internum (internal forum)
+* forum externum (external forum)
+What is the difference?
+## WISH: Women in Solidarity with Hijabis ##
+What is this?
+https://www.facebook.com/pages/WISH-Women-In-Solidarity-with-Hijabis/778080655582205?sk=photos_stream
+Share what you know about this. What do you think? What are people doing here?
+## References ##
+Eurobarometer. 2010. "Special Eurobarometer 341, Wave 73.1: Biotechnology Report." http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf
+Eurobarometer. 2012. "Special Eurobarometer 393, Wave EB77.4: Discrimination in the EU 2012." http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_393_en.pdf
+Jones, Nicky. 2009. “Beneath the Veil: Muslim Girls and Islamic Headscarves in Secular France.” Macquarie Law Journal 9: 47.
+Petkoff, Peter. 2012. “Forum Internum and Forum Externum in Canon Law and Public International Law with a Particular Reference to the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.” Religion and Human Rights 7 (3): 183–214. doi:10.1163/18710328-12341236.
+Slotte, Pamela. 2010. “The Religious and the Secular in European Human Rights Discourse.” The Finnish Yearbook of International Law 21 (1): 231–86. SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2592380.
+World Values Survey. 2014. “World Values Survey Wave 6: 2010-2014: Online Data Analysis: V.9 Important in Life, Religion.” World Values Survey Database. Accessed June 30, 2014. http://worldvaluessurvey.org/.