We live in precarious times with environmental, economic, and military threats, compounded by sociocultural changes happening at a speed that would make the grieving mother laugh, the pregnant woman miscarry, and the bald man turn gray. All this stems from a loss of objective morality and a reorientation away from the Sacred. In his text […]
Tag Archives: islamism
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Aug
Aug
Where is political authority to be grounded – in claims of revelation, or in claims of human reason? The relationship and tension between religion and politics was called by the German-American philosopher Leo Strauss the “theologico-political” problem. Advocates of secularization theory, such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and others saw the rise of religious diversity […]
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Apr
Apr
Ever since the rise of revolutionary protests in the Middle East that were initially dubbed the “Arab Spring” before devolving into more of a long and stormy winter, Muslims have increasingly been making their presence established in the realm of political activism and social justice movements. Islamism and Sharia are stable hot topics of discussion […]