...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...
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The politics of religious freedom
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...
Essays
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...
Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...in the late nineteenth century with colonial codes that defined Islamic law within the confines of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and ritual. These codes later became a basis for Muslim efforts...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Spirituality: what remains?
by Webb Keane...opposed to religion, which is identified with “exclusive rituals, legislating hierarchies, codes of membership.” Spirituality, by contrast, would presumably be what remains once these impediments have been removed. It is...
Mere Civility
Civility, identity, and agency
by Jeffrey Collins...most modern speech codes and litigation target representative persons of various kinds: politicians, teachers, university instructors, religious leaders. It is not individual freedom that the liberal Leviathan finds difficult to...
The headscarf controversy
The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
by Ayse Kadioglu...robe The early republican elite in Turkey showed a great distaste for religion. They tried to diminish the religious outlook of women by embracing Western dress codes. In the end,...