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An Interpretation of the Hijab’s Symbolic Meaning: Perspectives of Islamic Scholars and the Colonial Remains That Influence Modern...

In the first chapter of What is Islam: The Importance of Being Islamic entitled “Six Questions About Islam,” Shahab Ahmed asks six...

The Secular, Religious, and Cultural Essentializations of the Hijab in France and Quebec Rawdah Mohamed, wearing a hijab, holding up her...

Reading how Seyla Benhabib approaches legal concepts such as universal citizenship, constitutional law, asylum law, as well as the...

Key Writings of Political Philosopher Seyla Benhabib in The Rights of Others and The Claims of Culture Subjects such as sovereignty and...

“I insist on this because I will be speaking above all of political theology and of the religion always present at the death penalty, of...

“Being-jew would then be something more, something other than the simple lever–strategic or methodological–of a general deconstruction;...

“We need to start with language for the divine as redeemer, as liberator, as one who fosters full personhood and in that context, speak...

Modern society has a political, social, economic - and of course a religious - history that has shaped it thus far. On the subject of...

“The question is whether the world religions discourse can be in any way enlisted, and trusted on the side of historical scholarship.”...

As researchers of religion, our assignments engage material from scholars or historians of the field as part of an implicit task of any...

The initial proposal of the Frankfurt School can be simply summarized by highlighting the idea that ‘philosophy without empirical...

Thomas Christiano writes that “the aim of democracy as public justification is reasoned consensus among citizens,”[1] but what does the...

“Under what conditions did Man invent for himself those judgments of values, “Good” and ‘Evil”? ˗˗Nietzsche The three essays in...

Midrash is a body of Jewish literature from late antiquity, and a method of reading sacred text. It combines close reading with...

“Ours is, after all, the only civilization in which officials are paid to listen to all and sundry impart the secrets of their sex: as if...

“Why are you yourself [doctor] so dedicated when you don’t believe in God? Well, if I believed in an all-powerful God, then I would stop...

The road that symbolizes a journey, a conquest, and a test for survival in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road plays with our senses to describe...

“Your claim of conscience counts if it is based in religion; my claim of conscience doesn’t count if it is not based in religion. That,...

“Under what conditions did Man invent for himself those judgments of values, “Good” and ‘Evil”? ˗˗Nietzsche The three essays in...