...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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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
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
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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A changing papacy?
by Ella Wagner...actions reflect, many people feel, a kindness, openness, and humility that they hope signals a shift for the Catholic Church as a whole. A native of Argentina, Francis is the...
December 21, 2013
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The Vatican Spring?
by Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, Jeffrey Guhin, Cecelia Lynch, James Martin, SJ, J. Michelle Molina and Sarah Shortall...to the military junta responsible for Argentina’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and 80s, when Bergoglio served as provincial for the Jesuit order in Argentina. Does the election of Francis...
May 10, 2013
here & there
Habemus Papam: Pope Francis Roundup
by Taline Cox and Sabrina SteinOn March 13, 2013, after five rounds of voting, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was selected as pope, making him the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first...
March 14, 2013
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
Law, religion, and state building
Privatization of assisted reproductive technologies in the Islamic Republic of Iran
September 26, 2023
...the state through registration. Established in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran changed the structure of the state and the grounds for the legitimacy to rule, but it did not...
September 26, 2023