Bloomington, Indiana – As someone who writes and lectures about women and gender in Islam, I am often asked if women had any role in the making of the Islamic tradition. Happily, the answer is always yes. There were in fact many prominent women in (...)
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana: If we were to go solely by newspaper headlines and broadcast media reports, a decade after September 11, 2001, we would have to conclude that the world has become overwhelmingly crisis-ridden and that some things got worse when (...)
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana: If we were to go solely by newspaper headlines and broadcast media reports, a decade after Sept. 11, 2001, we would have to conclude that the world has become overwhelmingly crisis-ridden and that some things got worse when we (...)
Religious pluralism is one of the few, truly, modern, expressions. The term refers to the acceptance of a multitude of religions existing in harmony despite internal doctrinal differences and variations in external rituals and practices. Although (...)
It is widely assumed that the sine qua non of secularism in Christian-Western contexts is the separation of church and state. Meanwhile, secularism is also assumed to be a pre-requisite for the successful democratization of societies.
The (...)
