...changes they are bringing are no more radical than the writing down of the oral torah, Maimonides popularization of a simplified law code over the more complex Talmud, or the...
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Homosexuality and the Anglican debate
by Mary Anne Case, Eric Fassin, Siobhán Garrigan, Jimmy Casas Klausen, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Emilie Townes...is that the Global South is redeploying a Victorian gender code against the very people who imposed it upon them. But the interpretation I would like to hear the Archbishop...
Essays
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
by Alfred Stepan...of the accomplishments of Bourguiba was the creation of the Arab world’s most egalitarian family code which, among many other things, granted the right of women to initiate a divorce,...
The headscarf controversy
Turkey’s coup by court
by Jenny White...Penal Code, which criminalizes insulting Turkishness, and which has been used to muzzle writers, activists, publishers and scholars, including Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. Having said this, the AKP government has...
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Mumbai revisited
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani...and that restricting their rights was not only patriotic, but also prudent. Today the media, the police and the judiciary are tacitly observing the Code Napoleon: terrorists are assumed guilty...
Islam: An American Religion 
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Anver Emon
Islam: An American Religion and the paranoia of anti-Muslim politics
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Anver Emon
...to think of shariah as a ‘religious’ code in the Western sense because it seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere—economic, social, military, legal and political....
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Does faith trump equality?
by Jessica Polebaum...generates a community of communities, each living according to their authentic moral code, the role of the state being to police the margins and mediate when moralities clash. The church...
Islam and the Secular State
Preaching to the converted
by Saïd Amir Arjomand...enabling discourse for promoting the role of Islam in public life.” Having convincingly argued against the French and Turkish variants of secularism as exclusions of religion from politics and the...
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The science of morality
by Laura DuaneSam Harris, author and vehement secularist, argues that science can create a moral code as effectively as religion can: It’s often thought that there’s no description of the way the...
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Moral relativism and the Holocaust museum shooting
by Laura Duane...been arguing the same point about sin. Conservative theologians believed that sin is a personal matter, a choice made to break a moral code, usually based in some flawed belief...