...an-Na`im’s message, to take only some of the Qur’an as directly applicable today, was especially controversial. His openness and generosity as a scholar and a fellow human being has, however,...
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An atheist schism?
by Jessica Polebaum...world, and celebrated the freedom to denigrate and insult religion. Some offered to trade pornography for Bibles. Others de-baptized people with hair dryers. And in Washington, D.C., an art exhibit...
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The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
by Alexander Thurston...ultra-Sunni identity that rejects allegorical readings of scripture, views scripture primarily as proof-texts that determine correct belief and action, rejects the four major Sunni legal schools, and describes today’s world...
Religious freedom in the United States
The zero effect doctrine
by Finbarr Curtis...than I am in how he imagines religious freedom. One common response to Ginsberg’s concerns is that Hobby Lobby employees are free to do whatever they want. As free citizens...
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Neuroscience and free will
by Taline Cox...that take up the issue of neuroscience and free will, including Sam Harris’s Free Will, Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain, and...
Political Theology
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo...and the sovereign, by definition, is free. The freedom depicted by Kahn in Political Theology is certainly not a negative freedom. It is, among other things, the collective freedom of...
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Free religion and free markets in Guatemala
by Ella Wagner...explains, Part of that story involves what counts as religion. Those who tie religious freedom and free markets fail to recognize the K’iche’ people’s relationship to their land (and their...
Political Theology
The perspective of the common
by Bruno Gulli...truth, sovereignty, itself a paradigm of transcendence and domination, makes the free decision impossible for the vast majority of people. The free decision and the free act cannot be separated...