...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
...science of law depends upon feedback loops between producers and consumers, and that these loops run in complex circuits behind and between market, state, school, court, and home. Anyone who...
April 24, 2018
here & there
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
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
off the cuff
The naked public sphere?
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, John H. Evans, Philip S. Gorski, R. Marie Griffith, Cristina Lafont, Nancy Levene, Nadia Marzouki, Ebrahim Moosa, Justin Neuman and John Schmalzbauer...To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only...
March 2, 2012
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
by Simon During...detached conservatism from romanticism, as well as from a de Maistrean political theology that interpreted the struggle between revolution and reaction primarily as one between Satan and God. But it...
July 27, 2010
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
Canon fodder
March 5, 2019
...instead, is that those tasked with enforcing those codes might be even more lax than the civil police because that code does not have the backing of the state. It...
March 5, 2019
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