Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Imagine you’re a young Christian woman from the United States. A veiled Pakistani woman tells you that she has more freedom than you. How would you react?
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It can be unsettling for Muslims like myself, who have grown up reading the Quranic account of human creation in a particular way, to consider evolution a valid explanation for the creation of life.
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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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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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Even in the narrow winding streets of Nepal, drenched daily with monsoon rains, there was no escape from the news media which equate the word “madrasa” with everything toxic in Islam.
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While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?
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