...contestations between different visions of experiencing transcendence or between alternative political principles that claim to offer the best solution to the question of harmonious social coexistence. For the most part,...
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Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
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Faith at the Oscars
by Laura Duane...and tensions. Most prominently, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the likely best picture winner, struck me as unusual because it features a Muslim protagonist without any connection to terror; it also has a...
Islam and the Secular State
An Islamic case for a secular state
by Charles Kurzman...constitutionalism, human rights, and democratic citizenship, An-Na‘im argues. He proposes that the best path toward these ideals — and the best path toward Islamic fulfillment — is a secular state....
Essays
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
by Barbara D. Metcalf...the countries of South Asia, could best be understood as part of the larger political culture in each of their respective national contexts. Thus, in India, Deobandi teachers, religious leaders,...
Religion and the 2008 election
The preacher and the politician
by Dwight Hopkins...home. He writes about other personal incidents in his two best selling books. And Obama recalls how he read accounts of racial discrimination against black people. Though not in Martin...