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Essays
Welcome to the faith-based economy
by Arjun AppaduraiLast week as I listened, along with many other Americans and others around the world, to President Bush’s most recent effort to reassure us about the current economic meltdown I...
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...(contra Clifford Geertz) as representing a way of harnessing collective intelligence toward collective ends: share the code with the world, and the world will fix its bugs in no time....
Religious freedom in the United States
Corporation as sect
by Kathryn Lofton...United States might be described as religions, the Internal Revenue Code supplies certain benefits to those collective bodies that apply to be recognized as “churches and religious organizations.” The exemption...
Uprising in Egypt
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...dignity of the citizens of Egypt must either go or be drastically overhauled. The Muslim Personal Status Code (also referred to as family law) structures a model of the family...
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CFP | Deprovincializing Political Theology: Postcolonial and Comparative Approaches
by The Editors...turn for political theology as a discipline. We would welcome proposals from all who are interested in discussing such questions. Dissertation chapters and draft articles would also be welcome, as...
Law, religion, and state building
Privatization of assisted reproductive technologies in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Islam and the Secular State
Disentangling Islam and the post-colonial state
by Joel S. Migdal...creation of a secular civil code, such a code was never adopted, the efforts foundering largely on issues involving the Muslim community, Sezgin shows. Like An-Na`im, Kuru values, above all...