Day: October 14, 2007

In the New York Times earlier this week, Slavoj Zizek, the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, defended the Chinese Governemtns recent efforts to regulate religion–including Order No. 5, a law covering “the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism.” One of Zizek’s more provocative arguments is that even in the West religion is largely becoming a mere matter of culture, rather than faith.