...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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Religions and their publics
Constructing the Jewish public space: Community, identity, and collaboration
by Andrew Buckser...cultural collaboration. Let’s begin with the issue of boundaries, drawing on an example from my own fieldwork in Denmark. The Great Synagogue of Copenhagen is not an imposing building: a...
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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...
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The virtues of godlessness
by Nicole GreenfieldPhil Zuckerman, associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College, uses Sweden and Denmark as examples to counter the assertion that without religion, society is doomed: Many people assume that religion...
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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...
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...
Rethinking secularism
Beyond moderate secularism
by Rajeev Bhargava...to build mosques and therefore to properly practice their own faith (Germany, Italy), in discrimination against ritual slaughter (Germany), or against the right to have proper Muslim burial grounds (Denmark,...
Rethinking secularism
Beyond secularisms of all sorts
by Veit Bader...of reservation: we see increasingly aggressive secularist mobilization, combined with right-wing populism in many European countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark. The claim-making of Muslims in regard to “the...