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Your Deity Prescribes Public Policy?!...Please!
I think it is safe to say that on average religious faith plays a bigger role in public life in most developing countries than in the West or in places like China and Russia. In these latter societies,...
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Reflecting on Mumbai
I do not have to be Indian to feel the sense of sorrow and unfathomable injustice as this month the world remembers the Mumbai attacks of a year ago. Many times we seem to have shaken our pitiful...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.AudienceScapesNew Platforms, New Public Opinion?"With the continued growth of new communication media...
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Quote of the Week: Rachid al-Ghannouchi
"The cure for a failed democracy is more democracy [...] dictatorship disguised in religion is the worst kind of dictatorship." -Rachid al-Ghannouchi, founder and chairman of Tunisia's moderate...
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‘Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence’
Liberal constitutionalists like me tend to dismiss religious fundamentalists of different stripes as a wild bunch better avoided than understood. The attitude also arises from intellectual confidence:...
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The neglected universal force for peace and stability: LOVE?
2016 Summer Session students, Montgomery College“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”– Albert Einstein When I present lectures on sociological theories, I often see in my...
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#1 from 2016: The neglected universal force for peace and stability: LOVE?
2016 Summer Session students, Montgomery CollegeOur Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2016. This post was originally published on January 8, 2016. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling...
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