...to right conduct from ritual to social and business relations, Shari’a is more than law, to which it is sometimes reduced when positioned as alternative to secular, civil codes and...
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A Universe of Terms
media
by Nathan Schneider
...different rights than owning a cat, much less holding a convertible note from investing in a startup or tokens of a cryptocurrency. Ownership involves fixed codes of law but it...
Ruinations: Violence in these times
When mercy doesn’t season justice: Rights versus humanitarian relief
Religion and the 2008 election
The cooling embers
by Jason C. Bivins...completely accounted for by social and cultural codes.” It is possible that, despite how overdetermined Obama as signifier has already become, his presence in American public life may yet become...
Rethinking secularism
Sacramental poetics
by Regina Schwartz...treatments of the relations between religious and secular legal codes, ranging from Locke to Carl Schmitt; of the distinction between covenant and contract debates, from Kant to Lenn Goodman; of...
Rethinking secularism
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
by Jocelyne Cesari...An important question raised by the Muslim presence in Europe is how the protection of specific subcultures can promote, rather than stifle, individual emancipation. Will Kymlicka offers one possible way...
A Secular Age
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
by Justin Neuman...that “we need a stronger ethic, a firmer identification with the common good,” and on the other, Taylor is convinced that legal and ethical codes can never provide for the...
A Universe of Terms
space, place
by William Elison
...colonies—the shantytowns that house over half the population—and the upscale residences built in violation of municipal codes, and often property rights to the plot underneath. (Now that, I’d like to...