...the House of Lords solicited an official 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,...
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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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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...
The Unintended Reformation
Conceptualizing pluralism and consensus in the modern Western world
by Paul Silas PetersonWithout pointing out those places where I agree with Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, I would like to add a qualification to his claim that the modern Western world is...
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Contending Modernities
by R. Scott Appleby, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Jocelyne Cesari, Robert W. Hefner, Sherman Jackson, Slavica Jakelić, Bernice Martin, David Martin, Martin E. Marty, Aminah McCloud, Robert Orsi, Eboo Patel and Christian Smith
...Western modernity in that Muslims cannot ignore—even if they may escape—the prism of Western modernity. Non-Muslim Westerners, meanwhile, can still afford to look at themselves and Muslims through the prism...
Rethinking secularism
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe?
by Tariq Modood...of what is happening in Western Europe. Each country in Western Europe is a secular state and while each has its own distinctive take on what this means, there are,...
The headscarf controversy
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
by Joan Scott...long denied women the right to vote and its civil code enforced male prerogatives over women in families until well into the twentieth century. The Turkish republic (a one-party state...
Beyond critique
The secular in non-Western societies
by Katerina Dalacoura...Western and non-Western settings are not really as stark as Taylor suggests and that “Islamic countries” or “Muslim societies” (as Taylor calls them) have commonalities in their religious experience with...