...inspired by Robert Bellah’s wonderful post, which makes the case that elements within several axial religions share a single impulse with Western theoria, namely renunciation thought precisely as (a practical...
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
After Bhutto
by John L. Esposito...clashes with a westernized elite; and a strong military that has meant more years of military rather than democratic rule, and the role of feudal political leaders. Although Mohammed Ali...
Essays
Race, orthodoxy, and “real” Islam
by Sylvia Chan-Malik...believe western intervention is solely motivated by humanitarian concerns, nor do I believe it will succeed. I cannot support it.” Unsurprisingly, Shakir’s views received no coverage in the mainstream media....
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A Catholic critique of capital?
by Charles Gelman...the heirs to the principal western ethical schools: John Locke’s social contract, Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative, Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” Yet his is not...
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Redeeming the Burning Man
by Amanda Kaplan...showing us how these expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.” Burning Man is on the vanguard of contemporary religious movements that...
Exchanges
by Zachary Zinn...These essays show how groups in Western Europe and the United States draw on religious and secular symbols when determining belonging. (2016) Read more Religion and digital culture Scholars...
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Contextualizing the Faulks controversy
by Charles Gelman...thus. If he overstated “in order to make a point more clearly” he ended up uttering standard judgment of western civilisation from Dante to Amis. Read the full article here....
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Prominent Pakistani cleric condemns political violence
by Charles Gelman...young Muslims in Britain, Scandinavia and Canada, many of whom are of Pakistani backgrounds. While domestic politics in Muslim countries, the presence of foreign troops and the impact Western foreign...