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The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...statement from Indian attorney-general Soli Sorabjee on the Code’s outcomes. Sorabjee’s report was emphatically negative. The Code, he said, had fostered “intolerance, divisiveness, and unreasonable interference with freedom of expression,”...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
The just shall live by faith: Living without metaphysical guarantee in an antiblack world
...one is that an appeal to faith secures the former (a God not subordinate to Being), while metaphysics grounds, and enables, the latter. When Candace Jordan, for example, argues that...
The power of pluralist thinking
by Courtney Bender...observed in the United States is brought about by and likewise promotes religious freedom. Both positions have, arguably, contributed as much to our collective imagination of freedom as they have...
George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...the Obama Code. For the sake of unity, the President tends to express his moral vision indirectly. Like other self-aware and highly articulate speakers, he connects with his audience using...
Canon fodder
...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...family code was debated hotly after independence, with women’s groups and Muslim authorities disagreeing on a range of issues. The family code is essentially a set of laws that regulates...
Values and violence: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo
...free speech. It is to enforce compulsory, official speech—the very opposite of free speech. All those who have invoked Voltaire in recent weeks would do well to remember that free...
Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
by Peter Ronald deSouza...of a free society, that it so loudly proclaims whenever the issue of the limits of free expression come up in international affairs. This first set of issues, of the...