...institutions. The Status of Buddhism in Thailand Buddhism is not quite the official religion of Thailand, but it has featured centrally in discourses of Thai nationalism since the start of...
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The surprising history of global blasphemy law
April 15, 2024
...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,...
April 15, 2024
Pandemic, religion, and public life
Overlooking official responses: Thai Buddhist institutions and Covid-19
September 3, 2020
...evident in Thailand. In late April, the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) in Thailand released an eBook (in Thai) that detailed some of the efforts of the Thai Sangha (the...
September 3, 2020
Sharia Compliant
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
here & there
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
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
Deathless questions and other interviews
Prayer, imagination, and the voice of God—in global perspective
by Steven Barrie-Anthony...experiencing this, but it wasn’t a very rich category for them. Then my postdoc went to Thailand to research these experiences. Everybody in Thailand knew what sleep paralysis was, and...
March 5, 2013
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
What is your religion?: Hmong Americans and the category of religion
May 24, 2023
In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Hmong refugees left Laos and fled to Thailand after the Hmong had fought as the anti-communist allies of the United States during the...
May 24, 2023
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