...free speech, they often act as though such speech floats above actual historical circumstance. Insulated against history, free speech can appear almost religious, at least in one critic’s sense of...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...