In thinking about religious minorities, one must begin with religion but not end with religion.
Of equal value is the secular. The secular is crucial for weaving tapestries and building bridges
between Christians and Muslims. In both Africa and Asia, the secular often mediates as well as
moderates the religious, so much so that the progress, or failure, of pluralism can only be charted
in the messiness of living history, nowhere more visibly than in the daily experience of Christian
and Muslim minorities, who will be the subject of this upper level seminar.
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