...the state and federal levels for non-Muslims. Both sets of courts enforce a state-produced code, one significantly indebted to British colonial era law. All judges are trained in common law...
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A Secular Age
Marriage plots
by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini...certain kind of purity a necessary condition for relating to God through the sacraments.” For Taylor, the “moralistic code” dedicated to sexual purity fails doubly: it “erects a barrier between...
here & there
Islam: still a religion in Tennessee
by Richard Amesbury...we take issue with that,” Brandon said. “There’s no proof in this case that Islam is a religion. There is no case law or code that Islam is a religion.”...
A Secular Age
Sex and the subject of religion
by Tracy Fessenden...nicely embodies the paradox familiar to any schoolchild catechized in the sanctity of virginity, the sexual knowledge required of those being schooled to avoid it. Rather, by promoting Dorothy Day...
here & there
Dean of natural law
by Nathan Schneider...natural lawyers. He argues for the enforcement of a moral code as strictly traditional as that of a religious fundamentalist. What makes his natural law “new” is that it disavows...
The headscarf controversy
Human rights in the era of the AKP
by Howard Eissenstat...and the penal code was reformed. Quietly, Kurdish villagers who had been forcibly relocated in the previous decade were allowed to return to their homes. Torture and harassment became less...
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows
On parable, truth, and true and false reconciliation
Sociology of religion
The (really) strong program
by Bryan S. Turner...basis of the strong program. It is recognized, at least implicitly, that the phrase ‘strong program’ is a code for the rejection of the ‘weak program,’ where the latter typically...
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Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
by Thomas Alberts...society. The local African religions seek protection for the practice of animal sacrifice, while the Hasidic community is asking that visitors abide by its strict gendered dress codes (i.e., the...
Mere Civility
Civility, identity, and agency
by Jeffrey Collins...promoted a robust, if at times coded, assault on the coherence of Trinitarian orthodoxy. These writings did not exemplify or suggest “civil silence” as to Hobbes’s own dissenting religious opinions....