Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.
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How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?
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It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.
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When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.
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In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.
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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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Designer clothing brands that cater to Muslim consumers in the Middle East have mushroomed, in spite of the fact that some of this clothing is manufactured in Muslim-unfriendly countries.
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While Muslims as believers might focus on halal in the context of the global market as the realm that enables them to exert theological, cultural, and political agency against Western modernity, the impulses that shape their theological orientations and religious acts seem quite aligned with some aspects of that modernity.
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Does an increase in everyday piety through “brand Islam” simultaneously and necessarily weaken the authority of Islamic religious institutions?
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Can prophetic indictment balance lamentation with justice, irony with hope? Read the full article »
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