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The theology of Dan Brown
by Laura DuaneRoss Douthat writes about the theology of Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons: In the Brownian worldview, all religions—even Roman Catholicism—have the potential to be...
Who do you want me to be?
by Daniel Vaca...ever made you feel compelled to switch the code of your speech, or to introduce yourself a certain way? Have you ever perused someone’s bookshelf and silently criticized either their...
A right to home-school?
by Ruth Braunstein...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...
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....
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...
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,...
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,...
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
by Stephanie Coontz...minor children of men who died before age 65—if the couple was legally married. The federal tax code was rewritten to provide special benefits to married couples. Private employers followed...
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...