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Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

Historicity and Discursivity, Religious and Secular: Responding to the Rome Conference 2015

Series: Rome 2015

Ebrahim Moosa
August 17, 2015January 24, 2024

Rather than fixating on the authority of past authorities and their social imaginaries, the discursive approach negotiates conceptions of the human person by way of historicizing and complexly rereading the tradition.

Neuroscience and the Religious Self

Ilia Delio
February 18, 2014August 12, 2019

The field of Neuroscience is changing our understanding of the way we live, move and have our being.

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.

A Response to Sherine Hamdy and Charles Camosy

Series: Science and the Human Person

Robert Tappan
September 24, 2013August 12, 2019

Camosy and Hamdy both offer us food for thought in regard to the specific cases they present, as well as to the wider concerns of the Science and the Human Person project and its question: “What is the human person?”

Reflections on Human Personhood: An Islamic Perspective

Abdulaziz Sachedina
August 21, 2013August 9, 2019

Modernity has played havoc in appraising human personhood. Science and technology are progressing unabatedly to improve the quality of human life, and yet the end result unwittingly points to further confusion in appreciating the natural and spiritual dimensions of the human person.

Human Persons and Human Dignity: Implications for Dialogue and Action

Thomas Banchoff
August 19, 2013July 23, 2018

What distinguishes us as persons, and not just as organisms, is a culture of human dignity–the shared idea that, as human beings, we are entitled to respect and recognition from one another.

Can Modern Medicine Locate the Human Soul?

Sherine Hamdy
April 10, 2013August 7, 2019

I would like to offer an intervention that suggests how current bioethical debates, that may seem intransigent when the human soul is evoked, may be moved forward.

Definitions of Personhood in Islamic Normative Texts

Thomas Eich
February 22, 2013August 7, 2019

Since the 7th century, Islamic normative texts have emphasized the importance of ensoulment and outer appearance in the definition of personhood.

The Human Person and the Human Brain: Some Implications of New Science

Charles Camosy
February 13, 2013August 5, 2019

The gradual shift toward identifying the human person with capacities of the individual brain raises a number of difficult problems. New scientific discoveries have challenged existing conceptions of the human person and have important implications for bioethics.

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