Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?
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Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?
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Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.
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There are broad zones of ambiguity and aporia in every culture. And it is in those zones that one can find promise and potential.
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When the western imaginary happened to be puritanical, Muslims were cast as lascivious and dissolute, when the western imaginary loosened up a bit, Muslims became sexually suppressed.
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Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.
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Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.
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