...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...
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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...
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...
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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...
Essays
Ducking the Arab Spring in Morocco
by Abdeslam Maghraoui...The World Bank, Western donors, and International NGOs have bankrolled this strategy. With the exception of the widely applauded family code reforms introduced in 2004, all of the king’s reform...
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Catholic guidelines for the blogosphere
by Nathan Schneider...considerable concern: Archbishop Celli said he didn’t think a Catholic bloggers’ “code of conduct” would accomplish much, especially when what is really needed is a reflection on what it means...
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Glenn Beck now telling you what church to attend
by Rebecca Sager...to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a “code word” for communism and Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to...