Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response
SherAli Tareen Responds to Forum Contributors I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time
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Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam
Kecia Ali on SherAli Tareen As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being
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Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia
Ali Altaf Mian on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muḥammad in Modernity models an extended set of close readings of nineteenth- and early
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A Forum on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
University of Notre Dame Press This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study
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Defending Muhammad in Modernity: Forum Introduction
Ali Altaf Mian This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study of religion
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Scientific Certainty and Religious Mystery
It is not difficult to see why natural disaster phenomena find religious signification. From the primeval deluge in Genesis to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, religious meaning is often attributed to the calamitous effects of natural disasters which unsettle the status quo.
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Ireland: Sacred Spaces and The Pursuit of New Gods
Crawford Gribben on Ireland’s Ancient Religious Traditions O ne-night last week, I raised the blind and looked out of my bedroom window towards
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The Future of Secularism
The future of liberalism lies in secularism. What is needed for a renaissance in liberalism worldwide is a spiritual revival in secularism itself. To put this another way, the current crisis in values after the Death of God could be thought of as the birth pangs of the creation of the first genuinely secular civilization in human history.
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Religious Freedom: An American Ideal
Tisa Wenger on Jack Rakove W hat comes to mind when you hear the words “religious freedom?” Who and what, in practice, has
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The Mystery of Making: Makoto Fujimura’s Theology of Hope
Leah Silvieus on Makoto Fujimura I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.
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