...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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Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
April 24, 2018
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George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America—a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss. What they miss is...
February 24, 2009
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
Canon fodder
March 5, 2019
...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
March 5, 2019
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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...
August 9, 2010
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...
February 10, 2008
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Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
June 25, 2018
...a segment of the Radical Left, which exploits anti-Zionism to transform those who have perpetrated crimes against Jews into today’s victims. Because cunning politicians have realized that the Muslim vote...
June 25, 2018
Rethinking secularism
The resurgence of the civic
by Adrian Pabst...mobilization that is not beholden to certain anarchist or communist extremes that dominated many anti-globalization movements in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Nor is today’s popular protest connected with...
November 29, 2011
Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Complicating hate speech matters
January 25, 2019
...original Norwegian version, and Islam: Europe Invaded, America Warned in its US edition, it is the work of a self-declared Norwegian secular feminist activist with far-right sympathies, Ms. Hege Storhaug,...
January 25, 2019
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...(contra Clifford Geertz) as representing a way of harnessing collective intelligence toward collective ends: share the code with the world, and the world will fix its bugs in no time....
March 20, 2015