...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...
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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
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Queer faiths: Can conversions uncover and unsettle racialized religion?
by Jana Glaese...associated in Germany. Not only is this an insightful study on German national identity and Islam’s role therein; the book also spurs thinking about the wider application of the concept...
October 15, 2015
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The Weimar Century
by Or Rosenboim...mindset, as well as on the political and cultural transformation of Germany after the Second World War. This dual motion can be explained, he argues, through the stories of five...
November 14, 2016
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Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
by Peter Ronald deSouza...being hostile and prosecuting the transgressor. A point in case is Germany. The decision to prosecute will enable us to see the extent to which Germany has internalized the norms,...
April 25, 2016
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A right to home-school?
by Ruth Braunstein...Germany’s schooling policy in light of these claims: The basis for current policy on public schooling, according to Brügelmann, is a Germany-wide law from the Weimar Republic in 1919. The...
April 27, 2010
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The crucifix controversy and the contradictions of German secularism
by John D. Boy...the German population. In fact, a 2008 poll indicated that 53 percent of Muslims living in Germany oppose the headscarf, indicating that Kemalist attitudes are widespread in Germany’s Muslim population,...
April 30, 2010
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A clash of secularisms? The German historical experience
by Todd Weir...worldview secularism caused significant deformations of both liberal and conservative conceptions of secularization. The fate of secularism in Germany One of the major differences in the political development of Britain...
November 16, 2015
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Religious education in Germany
by Nicole GreenfieldThe debate over whether Berlin schools should offer classes on religion as an alternative to ethics courses is “only partly about how God fits into the classroom; it is also...
March 31, 2009
Rethinking secularism
Beyond moderate secularism
by Rajeev Bhargava...to build mosques and therefore to properly practice their own faith (Germany, Italy), in discrimination against ritual slaughter (Germany), or against the right to have proper Muslim burial grounds (Denmark,...
September 16, 2011