...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,”...
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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...
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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...
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...
Deathless questions and other interviews
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
by Joseph Blankholm...European Union would be better for religious freedom in Turkey. For the same reasons, the military became less pro-Western Europe. JB: What does a healthy relationship between democracy and religion...
off the cuff
The naked public sphere?
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, John H. Evans, Philip S. Gorski, R. Marie Griffith, Cristina Lafont, Nancy Levene, Nadia Marzouki, Ebrahim Moosa, Justin Neuman and John Schmalzbauer...extremists. Second, this understanding of the relation between faith and the public square reaffirms a typically neoliberal vision of the public sphere as a free market of ideas, where any...
Essays
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
by Alfred Stepan...not to exclude a large group of citizens from participating in the first free elections, the Assembly declared that former Ben Ali party members and/or supporters were free to form...
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
by Simon During...detached conservatism from romanticism, as well as from a de Maistrean political theology that interpreted the struggle between revolution and reaction primarily as one between Satan and God. But it...