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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...
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...
Privatization of assisted reproductive technologies in the Islamic Republic of Iran
...have direct legal force, Article 3 of the Iranian Code of Civil Procedure specifies that courts can base their decisions on fatwas issued by recognized mujtahids if there are gaps...
Worlding with the Rosetta Stone
...Said once characterized as an “ascetic code of willed homelessness”), Allan retrieves Auerbach’s vision of exile as a place from which to “earn a proper love for the world.” Departing...
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...
Buddhism and deliberative democracy
...In this climate of division, democratic governments increasingly struggle to make decisions that are both legitimate and widely accepted. In academic circles, many theorists promote deliberation as a remedy. The...
Bored with non-specific Protestant boredom
...was “desirable” that the “decisions of common sense . . . be brought into a code, in which all reasonable men should acquiesce.” Common Sense philosophers (in addition to sidestepping...
Decoding religious freedom claims
by Jessica Polebaum...hundred years later) as on behalf of liberty. It is a code phrase alternately benign and sinister, much like that other clever cloak for bigotry, “states’ rights.” In the context...
Blasphemy and “hate spin” campaigns in Indonesia
...controversial Blasphemy Law have become highly adept at displaying righteous indignation in response to perceived insults. As the definition of blasphemy in the Criminal Code is very broad, a wide...












