...cultures, and population densities. Furthermore, this range derives from premodern comparative evidence (more on that below). All caveats aside, 2 percent is a devastating number for any population, in any...
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Secularism: Its Content and Context
Taking a stance
by Lars Tønder...this argument in a number of important ways. Most obvious perhaps is that although the controversy initially was characterized by a plurality of expressions and identities, it gradually grew into...
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
A matter of justice, not merely chastity
here & there
Muslim women’s rights, continued
by Nicole Greenfield...(Neither Whores nor Doormats), for whom it’s a necessary counterweight to family and community pressures on women. While it may well be true that some of the small number of...
here & there
Rising religious bigotry in Europe
by Laura Duane...significant numbers of the Germans (25%) and French (20%) interviewed also express negative opinions of Jews. These percentages are all higher than obtained in comparable Pew surveys taken in recent...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
by Nathan Schneider...intra-cultural, and not simply inter-cultural. For a number of years now, as you say, the U.N. Human Rights Council has annually adopted non-binding declarations against the “defamation of religions.” Likewise,...
Notes from the field
“This is not a Secular State”
by David Buckley...outspoken opposition to legislation on reproductive health that has been brewing in the Philippines for a number of years. Provisions within the legislation enjoy broad popular support, even among observant...
here & there
Secular humanism, the Christian Right, and progressive education
by Justin Reynolds...writes that we need “an intellectual history of the Christian Right’s critique of secular humanism,” for a number of reasons: We need this because such a critique has formed the...
