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Call for Research Proposals: Contending Modernities Working Group on Indonesia

Mun’im Sirry
October 18, 2014August 12, 2019

MUN’IM SIRRY

Contending Modernities invites scholars, experts and activists to submit research proposals that explore the conditions for the possibility of peaceful coexistence among diverse ethnic and religious communities in Indonesia, through a wide range of engagement with religious and secular forces. Read the full article »

A Muslim Response to Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium

A. Rashied Omar
March 7, 2014August 12, 2019

Through his Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis has inaugurated a constructive platform for Muslim leaders to enter into renewed dialogue with Catholics on critical questions facing both religious traditions. It is my view that Muslim leaders, in particular, need to do much more to reach out, engage, and embrace Pope Francis’ invitation to interfaith dialogue and solidarity. Read the full article »

Gender, Religion and IVF

Series: Science and the Human Person

Maura Ryan
February 27, 2014August 12, 2019

A focus on condemning particular therapies and methods of intervention, or on the limits of individual autonomy, overlooks crucial dimensions of the lived experience of infertility globally.

Muslim Attitudes Towards Evolutionary Science

Ebrahim Moosa
February 7, 2014August 12, 2019

Despite the combative relationship that some Muslims had with modern science during the colonial period, science still embodies the hope for the “future recovery” of Muslim societies, argues the historian of science Ahmad Dallal.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Consumerism: Considering the Social Impact of ARTs

Charles Camosy
January 27, 2014August 12, 2019

As the working group members of Contending Modernities think together how about Catholics and Muslims can work together on issues of bioethics—and with particular reference to how social structures impact and shape these issues—the problem of consumerism looms large. Read the full article »

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Islam: A Response to Thomas Eich

Ebrahim Moosa
December 2, 2013August 12, 2019

In his recent blog post, Thomas Eich asks if particular issues of medical ethics are “really only about the issue at hand, as is usually claimed in the course of such debates?” “How strong is the presence of other factors in these debates,” he continues, “which are not directly linked to the medical technology under discussion?” Read the full article »

The Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Iran

Robert Tappan
November 22, 2013August 12, 2019

Iran, though not alone among Muslim-majority countries with active fertility clinics, is unusual in its acceptance of third-party reproductive techniques, including the use of donor eggs and embryos, as well as surrogacy.

Islamic Discourses on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Thomas Eich
November 12, 2013August 12, 2019

Several years ago I attended a workshop in Switzerland where scholars from several European countries, as well as religious representatives from Niger and the Middle East, discussed issues relating to assisted reproductive technologies. I remember one particular exchange vividly. I wanted to inquire as to the opinion of the Chief Judge (Qadi) of a major Middle Eastern City on the issue of heterologous insemination. Read the full article »

A Response to Damian Howard, SJ

Abdulaziz Sachedina
November 1, 2013August 12, 2019

As I read Damian Howard’s comments in his recent blog entry, I started to engage in my own self-critical assessment. In my previous blog entry I may have given the impression of being a thoroughgoing supporter of rationalism in order to provoke Muslim exclusivist legal-juridical discourse to consider a more universalist, text-based argument that suggests a default secularity of Islamic religious thought.

Opening a Conversation with Abdulaziz Sachedina

Damian Howard
October 31, 2013August 12, 2019

Sachedina’s work generates a number of questions, and suggests possibilities for deeper dialogue and engagement between Muslims and Christians on moral matters.

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