...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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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...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...
February 24, 2009
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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
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
Practices of relation
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
July 20, 2020
...face of it they cannot embody them. Ironically, Sampter promoted muscular Zionism, an ideology that revered the strong and healthy male body, but she was a woman crippled from polio...
July 20, 2020
Youth Without Youth
Deciphered by means of a perfected computer
by John Lardas Modern...the safe-deposit box. I don’t know how this will be assured. But I do not doubt that the material will be preserved. Otherwise, my life would have no meaning.” Like...
February 19, 2008
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
Secularity and the liberal arts
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
by Jonathon Kahn...education can indeed yield immediate and obvious effects—economic, social, and political—even if these do not come with direct-deposit six figure bonuses. To these defenses of liberal arts education, we would...
November 24, 2010
A Secular Age
Circling the line
by Jason Bivins...textures of Taylor’s argument, suggesting that the long fetch of secularisms in the West continues to deposit new things on our shores. While it is not news that even religions...
May 20, 2010