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Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan] In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India… more »
Non Skeptical Essays
The Bible, Judaism and Christianity and the Origins of Democracy: Part 2
beastrabban wrote 2 weeks ago: In the first part of this blog post I attempted to describe how, while ancient Israel certainly did … more »
Judaism, Christianity and the Origins of Democracy: Part 1
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beastrabban wrote 2 weeks ago: Undoubtedly the greatest achievement of modern western political theory was the emergence of democra … more »
Christianity, Secularism and European Peace
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beastrabban wrote 1 month ago: In one of his comments to my original blog post on the Soviet Persecution of the churches, Robert cl … more »
Introduction to the Sociology of Missions
kbooks wrote 2 months ago: While much work has been done to apply anthropological insights to the study of missions, the sociol … more »
Between Charisma and Bureaucracy, Part 2
J.C. Baker wrote 3 months ago: Weber’s Typology of Authority Though overshadowed in the field of biblical studies by his work on … more »
The Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion
J.C. Baker wrote 4 months ago: While working on a paper on Max Weber’s typology of authority and the development of the episc … more »
What we don't know
adferoafferro wrote 6 months ago: February issue of Wired answers this question (?/!) It might have been titled Something You Don … more »
Confucianism
Earthpages.ca wrote 6 months ago: Confucianism A Chinese teaching of morality, right action and right education. The various schools o … more »
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 6 months ago: The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan … more »
Atheism as Religion 3
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beastrabban wrote 7 months ago: As the first two pieces I’ve written on religion have caused such wide controversy and intense deb … more »
Atheism as Religion: Part 2
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beastrabban wrote 7 months ago: Rich, commenting on my original blogpost discussing the similarities between organised atheism and r … more »
Atheism as Religion
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beastrabban wrote 7 months ago: There was considerable comment on the Christian blogs last week about the opening of a Humanist pre- … more »
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (I): Normative Pluralism
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 7 months ago: In my view, the most important crisis that Muslim society miserably failed to handle during Islam … more »
The Natural History Of Religion
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beastrabban wrote 7 months ago: Amongst the various atheist texts attacking religion published recently, several have tried to under … more »
Many Gods, but None True?
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beastrabban wrote 8 months ago: One of the common arguments against the existence of God is that humanity has produced a vast number … more »
Islamic Law & Social Change
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 9 months ago: Norman Calder, introducing Islamic law in one of his papers for Syed Hussein Nasr’s History of … more »
Ramadan Reflections 2: Harnessing the desire to consume
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 10 months ago: From the translation of Amin Ahsan Islahi’s Tazkiya-e-Nafs: [...] people tend to make Ramadan … more »
The Cult of Dawkins
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beastrabban wrote 11 months ago: Actually, the more Richard Dawkins’ career as a preacher of atheism is examined, the more it s … more »
Ramadhan 1427H: Culture of Consumption
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: I have pondered a lot and finally concluded the I belong to a culture of consumption. Try asking a M … more »
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