...Penal Code provide the affective infrastructure for global religion in the twenty-first century. In Pakistan, for instance, contemporary debates around blasphemy are produced via the Code, to which new sections...
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Reflecting on the minaret ban
by Jessica Polebaum...of how knowledge plays into prejudice. Switzerland has a Miss Switzerland but also a Mr. Switzerland who is celebrated all over the country. The winner of the competition in 2009...
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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...
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Discussing mosques, minarets, and crosses
by Ruth Braunstein, David Buckley and Grace Yukich...product of a politics of fear. To promote popular support for a referendum (recently passed), banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland, a political group circulated posters portraying minarets as...
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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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Religion and populism
by Nadia Marzouki, Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell...more about “belonging” than “belief,” and revolves around two main notions: restoration and battle. This restorationist discourse is based on a particular conception of culture as a set of codes....
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Swiss democracy
by Charles GelmanWith a Muslim constituency estimated to be between four and six percent of its total population, Switzerland is hardly in danger of being converted into a caliphate. Nevertheless, the country's...