...a French parliamentary committee early this year, recommending a new dress code for women in public buildings, “is a challenge to our republic.” Europeans believe in creating a clear civic...
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Christian Moderns
Colonialism and conflict
by Stephen Berkwitz...much like that of his fellow Franciscan brothers. And another colonial writer noted in the seventh century that the Buddha left a code of laws that were similar to Moses’s....
December 11, 2009
The politics of religious freedom
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
by Tamir Moustafa and Asifa Quraishi-Landes...platform opts instead to promote the sharia as a “frame of reference. ” Working hard to assuage anxieties both at home and abroad, the Party explicitly calls for a “civil...
April 16, 2012
Uprising in Egypt
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
by Alfred Stepan...has signed an agreement with some secular parties that he will not try to change Tunisia’s women-friendly family code, the best in the Arab world. In the new democratic environment,...
April 21, 2011
American Grace
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam...there might be historians around. At the risk of straining a metaphor to the breaking point, our point is simply that just as humans have a genetic code that shapes,...
December 19, 2011
The future of marriage
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
by Stephanie Coontz...laws prohibiting whites from marrying blacks, “Mulattos,” Japanese, Chinese, Indians, “Mongolians,” “Malays,” or Filipinos. Twelve states forbade marriage to a “drunk” or a “mental defective.” A Washington state statute forbade...
June 2, 2008
The politics of national identity
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
by Geneviève Zubrzycki...“bad Catholics,” or masons (all code names for Jews), and now also sexual minorities and feminist-terrorists (likewise, often accused of being Jewish). On the one hand, ethno-Catholic nationalists contend that...
October 13, 2016
Christian Human Rights
Christian human rights and the Jews
by Paul Hanebrink...systematic opposition to all religion.” Were Christian human rights an inclusive idea? Modern antisemitism had thrived in Europe as a “cultural code”—the belief that a “Jewish spirit” or a “Jewish...
June 16, 2015