...(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....
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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...
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...