...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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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...exercise of religion” clause, but simply on “freedom of speech” grounds it seems that the case is closed. This indicates that what is at issue in this debate is not...
Youth Without Youth
Repossessing the past
by Pamela Klassen...that “Western” men are autonomous seekers of spiritual truth, and women and “primitive cultures” are its instrumental vessels. By some sort of happy coincidence—or to use the surrealist term referenced...
Youth Without Youth
The persistence of memory
by Jeremy Biles“The ultimate fantasy would be to write about a fantasy because as soon as you realize it’s fantasy, it changes. But where does it go? What happens to it? Freud...
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...