An interesting debate is taking place in Egypt regarding a controversial court ruling that ordered the Coptic Orthodox Church to allow its members to divorce and remarry. Prior to this...
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Obama as public theologian: Old wine in new wineskins
by Ronald F. Thiemann...“this duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation to the claims of Civil Society.” For both Locke and Madison, then, freedom of conscience, free exercise...
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...symbolic centralization. Muslim elites responding to the hazards and opportunities of colonialism often found themselves accepting the jurisdiction of colonial law even in order to contest it, setting in motion...
Duplicitous Dalits
...aspires to assess the motives and volition of minority converts in order to ratify the “legitimacy” of conversion. Legally encoding the separation of a purely religious domain from the material-political,...
Before anything, above all: No decision
...center of a Schmittian understanding of political theology. In its classic formulation, in line with Westphalian order, the politico-theological centers on the problem of sovereign decision. As the Schmittian dictum...
Understanding resacralization (part 1)
by Brandon Vaidyanathan...beliefs in order to be more compatible with modernity. Many sociologists of religion, especially those promoting “strictness theory” and “rational choice” approaches, have argued that when religious groups give up...
History and the historyless
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...projects seem built on denying history, on obliterating more than a millennium and a half of church history in order to return directly to Pentecost or the River Jordan or...
“The hegemony of her sway”
by Jeffrey Mahan...little in the process of Oprahfication, “a dialogical idiom in which the interviewer restates what the subject has said in order to affirm its truth through a universal that she,...
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
by Noah Salomon...in order to dole out their goods (protection from persecution, the development of networks with global “communities of faith,” etc.), neat lines drawn on a map wherein what constitutes religion...
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
...Muslims, “environmental practice is a religious practice.” The relationship between nature and morality that emerges from Muslim systems is not one in which nature scripts a particular moral order (dangerous...