Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young Singaporean Muslim leader. How will you guide your community through questions of diversity and modernity?
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Our forefathers and mothers who struggled for independence would weep, knowing we now fight to advance limited group interests.
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In the current religio-political life in Indonesia, the naming of God as Merciful becomes a public discourse geared toward a theology of inclusivity.
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If Indonesian nationalism is weakening, what other basis for moral community might make coexistence across religious differences possible?
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What is the role of religion in public life? The debate is tearing through the Indonesian political and social fabric.
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The concept that women’s confinement in the home is for their protection was irreconcilable to me. But in our differences we found learning opportunities instead of distance.
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I was shocked and repulsed that someone in my own family would say that, after I had shared how wonderful the Madrasa Discourses participants were.
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As my peers in India and Pakistan are working towards updating their tradition, I will do the same in my faith community.
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As one of the first Americans these madrasa students had met, I felt enormous pressure to be a positive but accurate representative for the impossible-to-represent demographic of “American.”
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Before joining Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, Indian madrasa graduate Aadil Affan would have told you that accommodating or accepting…
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