Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
The “Islamic state” is a construct of modernity, of Muslim intellectuals trying to cope with modernity, secularization, and colonialism.
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In the inaugural address of the “Making Democracy One’s Own” conference in Rome on May 30th, 2016, Jan-Werner Müller recounted the divergent strategies taken by 19th and 20th European Catholics in making their respective political systems “their own.”
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The intellectual and social histories of humanisms show how they can slip all too easily and all too comfortably into a drive against differences and, thus, against pluralism.
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A “democracy” that lacks a fundamental commitment to pluralism opens the door to totalitarianism.
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The identity politics at work here are dangerously illiberal and run counter to the hopes of postwar European institutions.
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The conference “Making Democracy One’s Own: Muslim, Catholic and Secular Perspectives in Dialogue on Democracy, Development, and Peace” (Rome, May 30-June 1, 2016) sought to strengthen and intervene in theorizing the question of religion and democracy.
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We must root our analysis in the actual dilemmas encountered in practice…
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Violent extremism is one problem set where the role of religion is often highlighted – and causality presumed – by policymakers…
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Modern religious actors are anxious about their own inevitable secularity, which has always been a condition of their existence.
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