...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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Pandemic, religion, and public life
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
July 16, 2020
...who hold such visas. In my book that resulted from this research, Impossible Citizens, and in my more recent research in Qatar, I note several ways that Gulf governments move...
July 16, 2020
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Qatar hosts interfaith dialogue conference
by Brandon VaidyanathanThe Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue is currently hosting its ninth annual conference on interfaith dialogue from October 24-26. The only major interfaith dialogue event in the region, the...
October 26, 2011
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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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Competitive theism at the Grammys
by John D. Boy...that popular musicians are actually more likely to be successful if they believe God wants them to be famous. In other words, there’s a belief bonus for those seeking superstardom....
February 13, 2011
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Breivik and “Christianism”
by Amanda Kaplan...during the operation as I have no intention to surrender to them until I have completed all three primary objectives AND the bonus mission. When I initiate (providing I haven’t...
July 26, 2011
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Is Islamic finance safe?
by Nathan Schneider...of Qatar disagrees: “There is some assumption that some of it is cosmetically more comforting, but when so many Islamic instruments are now trying to mimic the effect of conventional...
February 2, 2010
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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