Religious Trajectories of the New Millennium
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Introduction
Identifying the pathways that religion might take in the future calls for prophecy. This course will attempt not prophecy but a rational search for certain trajectories that religion in the modern world has traced. In time and space, we must face where and when we are. Starting from America and after such a defining moment as 911, we will follow the trajectory as it bends its way through the centuries and space.
After 9/11, two of the world’s great cultural centers appear to be in conflict--specifically, extremist Islam and the western countries. This conflict gives the appearance of being about religion. That is, the extremist Islamists say that it is about a Christian-inspired crusade meant to usurp and rob Moslems of their precious spiritual heritage and culture. From the western perspective, there is the perception that an extremist form of religious fanaticism has arisen to oppose rights and values that form the core of western secular civilization; rights and values, it is believed, that all peoples everywhere share and wish to have were they to have the chance.
Religion is an important part of many societies around the world; religion offers adherents a way of acting morally, attaining authentic selves, and honoring and respecting powers that transcend human power. Traditional religion in the western nations has been in decline for a century or more. In its place has arisen secularism. Some religious thinkers in the west have seen secularism as the result of spiritual decline rather than advance. We have read three: Emerson, Kierkegaard, and Weil. For all three of these thinkers, the individual seems to be at the focus of their concerns. In many ways, they see a de-emphasis and degradation of the human image in favor of an overall social conformism which values mass consumption, experiential fragmentation, and legalistic talk of rights over individual responsibility, justice, and compassion.
In the Middle Eastern context, after a hundred years of colonialism by the western powers, an extreme form of Islam has arisen to take back the cultural and religious identity that they believe western exploitation has robbed them of. In their colonialist exploitation of this region, the western powers have arbitrarily created nation states, deposed and imposed political leaders, fomented wars between factions, and imported western style political and social ideas in an attempt to implement them. The result has been an ever-growing anomie and resentment in the Middle East against this exploitation. Islamic religious thinkers have attempted to combat this situation by returning to the sources of Islam and trying to use that framework to analyze, critique, and develop solutions.
It appears that religious thinkers from the west and the Middle East diagnose similar problems and present cures. The diagnoses appear to correlate, although the solutions do not. These authors believe that the ills they have identified have various social, political, and religious symptoms. Yet, their solutions to this state of affairs differ in dramatic ways.
In many ways, we will hear the voice of the divine as it speaks from those in the wilderness--Emerson in backward colonial America, Kierkegaard on the fringes of northern Europe, Weil a secular Jew coming to religion through Marxism, Sayid Qutb in an Egyptian jail, and Albert Camus the european stranger born in Arabic Morocco.
These voices are prophetic in their critique of modern culture and religion. Although from different socio-cultural backgrounds, they share many of the same criticisms of the modern, western world. From economic alienation, to psychological anomie, to religious nihilism, they share a view of the emptiness of modern values and attempt to bring to life the individual conscience and the need for revisioning on God.
What they do not share is a statement of solutions. Emerson chose to attempt a vision of the unity of all religions, Kierkegaard stressed the individual and his/her relationship with a transcendent God, Weil moved towards a saintly politics with personal awareness of Christ's presence, Qutb a radical (perhaps violent) rejection of all western values and the return to the Quran and Sharia, and Camus spoke of authentic rebellion in an absurd universe (where God is dead) tempered with humanity and love.
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Recent Documents
Fundamentalism
When Not Seeing Is Believing By ANDREW SULLIVAN
Islamic Fundamentalism Feared, Misunderstood By MARGOT PATTERSON
The rise of global fundamentalism By MARGOT PATTERSON
Religion Interconnects, Conflicts on All Fronts Interview with Martin E. Marty
Religion Interconnects, Conflicts on All Fronts Interview with Martin E. Marty
America and Fundamentalism
For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility
View of God can predict values, politics By Cathy Lynn Grossman
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening' By Peter Baker
America’s Foundations, Foundationalisms, and Fundamentalisms by J. G. A. Pocock (see the .pdf to download)
Dangerous Religion by Jim Wallis
The Cultural Contradictions of Christian Fundamentalism by Guy Rundle
WITH OR WITHOUT PASSION: What's Wrong with Fundamentalism? - Part I by Slavoj Zizek
Radical Right Christians
The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians By jodi dean
Holy War: As the Middle East burns, GOP pols, neocon pundits, and a powerful Christian right leader all sing the same (crazy) tune. By Sarah Posner
Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy By Ross Douthat
Faith and nationalism: Indivisible in America By Michael Medved
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock by LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Putting “theocracy” fears in their place by dpulliam
Public Stoning: Not Just for the Taliban Anymore by John Sugg
Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism By Matthew Tostevin
David Byrne on Jesus Camps: like Madrassas, with less literacy By Xeni Jardin
Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism By Max Blumenthal
Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric Before and After September 11, 2001 by Erin Runions
Leaving politics aside? by Mollie
End Times
Pastor John Hagee on Christian Zionism By NPR
Expediting the end By LOUIS SAHAGUN
Left Behind Christian sf novels turned into bigoted video-game by Cory Doctorow
CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "[A]re we living in the last days?" by Media Matters
Video: Some Christians see Biblical endtimes in middle east violence by RawStory
Israel
The Bible's Role in American Support for Israel by Daniel Pipes
"Islamo-Fascism"
In Europe, Islam rises, Christianity falls BY TOM HUNDLEY
Right-Wing ‘Guide to World War III’: ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out’ by Think Progress
Islam, Middle East and Fascism by Ibn Warraq
You are now entering Eurabia Written by Matt Carr
More right-wing paranoia from the US Written by David J. Jonsson
Islam vs. Civilization: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Written by Raymond Kraft
Islamic terrorism linked to Nazi fascists by Robert Duncan
Why Are We Suddenly At War With "Islamic Fascists"? A Neologism that Signals a Change in Strategy As Elections Near By JOHN W. DEAN
Arabs/Moslems/Terrorists
Globalized Islam - Interview with Olivier Roy
Faithful consider liberal reforms by Irshad Manji
The Duty to Think Rationally by Shaykh Daoud Sharafuddin Rosser-Owen
Please explain the divide? By dpulliam
Support for Bin Laden, Violence Down Among Muslims, Poll Says By Robin Wright
Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics: Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics By Pew Research Poll
Islamic radical groups are not all alike by LAURA ROZEN
The Muslim malaise by HAROON SIDDIQUI
The "new Orientalism" by Alastair Crooke
Islamic evangelism: Islam in Europe by Olivier Roy
A Glance into the Archives of Islam by Slavoj Zizek
The age of horrorism by Martin Amis
Neoconservatism
Neoconservatives and their Blueprint for US Power by Christian Science Monitor
What is a Neoconservative and Does It Matter? by Dale Vree
Flirting with Fascism: Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right. By John Laughland
Michael Ledeen By Sourcewatch
Christianity-Islam In Dialog?
THE POPE AND ISLAM: THE TRUE DEBATE By Tariq Ramadan
NEW STUDY SHOWS CHANGING EVANGELICAL VIEWS ON ISLAM SINCE 9/11 by Richard Cimino
Apocalypse now by Azmi Bishara
New Developments in Christianity
Americans May Be More Religious Than They Realize: Many Without Denomination Have Congregation, Study Finds By Michelle Boorstein
Some Say 20 Million Participate In Emerging Church Movement by Antonio Mora, Reporting
Growing: Movement is new form of evangelism by Tony Campolo
Leaders call 'Emerging Church Movement' a threat to Gospel by David Roach, Baptist Press
Getting rid of parishioners . . . on purpose by Mollie
Atheism
Newsweek on being an atheist by dpulliam
Atheism is a legacy worth fighting for by Slavoj Zizek
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Historical Background
Ancient
The Republic by Plato
European
Renaissance and Reformation by William Gilbert
Lectures in Medieval History by Lynn H. Nelson
Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
Internet Modern History Sourcebooh: The Early Modern West
The European Enlightenment
Internet Modern History Sourcebooh: The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
AGE OF REASON AND ENLIGHTENMEMT: 1650-1800 by Dr. Robert L. Jefferson
Karl Marx: Selected Works
The United States
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Research Links for Religion in American History by Dr. Robert L. Jefferson
Rutgers University Virtual Religion Index: American Studies
Yale University's American Religious History -- Resource Links
Wabash Center Religion in the United States and Canada
Religion and Revolution
Religion in America
The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln
Enlightenment in America
Lincoln's Faith in God
The Enlightenment
Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State
Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter
Critique of David Barton's "America's Godly Heritage"
The Myth of
the Separation of Church and State
Islam
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Timeline of Islamic History
Islam, the Modern World, and the West by Professor Alan Godlas
University of Texas: Islam Religion and Spirituality
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Islam Chronology
Islamic History
Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic, Religion: Resources for Studying Islam
Koranic Exegesis (tafsir)
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Review: Die syro-aramaeische Lesart des Koran; Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Qur’ānsprache
by Robert R. PHENIX Jr. and Cornelia B. HORN
The Qur'an and Qur'anic Interpretation (tafsir)
Damning History but Saving the Text: Fazlur Rahman between Tradition and Modernism by S Parvez Manzoor
The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl On reading the Qur'an—and misreading it.
Disclosing the Ambiguous Text By: Sumanto al Qurtuby
The prime theological challenge in the recent religious life is: How does someone religious define himself surrounded by another religions. Or in its contemporary theological terms: How to theologize in the religious context.
The Message of Fazlur Rahman by M Yahya Birt
Observing the Contemporary Model of Ijma’ By: Taufik Adnan Amal
The ijma‘ mechanism also open to the possibility of public deliberation and debate, so that various developing point of views individually as well as collectively get the opportunity to be heard by people who eventually will achieve consensus. When the majority decision is achieved, all the member of society – Muslim and non Muslim- must attempt to implement it. The initiator, adherent or whoever agrees with the minority view must accept the majority’s decision and try to implement it as a consensus.
The Koran was not Revealed in an Empty Space By: M. Hilaly Basya
It is obvious that the Koran was not revealed in an empty space. And it is obvious that the Koran is culturally constructed and historically structured. Hence, if the Koran reading is detached of the cultural element constructing it, it will be alienated and irrelevant. Therefore, we may say that Koranic textual content is not valid in every time and place. The Koran is confined within space and time.
Factors behind the Stagnancy of Fikh By: Fajar Kurnianto
Fikh is understood as knowledge about sharia and both are not identical. There is a significant difference between knowledge about sharia and the law of sharia. Fikh eventually has a different domain to sharia. Sharia is a divine universal teaching for human benefit. Sharia in that meaning is non-discriminative upon certain groups or individual.
Religious Figures and Political Choice By: Saiful Amien Sholihin
Approaching the 2004 elections, many articles have criticized the validity of ulema’s (Muslim scholar) and kiai’s involvement in political practices within political parties. Some have argued that kiai (religious leaders) should concentrate only on religious and social fields.
The What is the Koran by Toby Lester
Discusses the controversial attempts to use the methods of historical criticism in the context of the Koran.
The ‘Ulama’: status and function by Zouhair Ghazzal
Surat al-Ma'un [Tafsir of al-Ma'un taken from a number of traditional sources]
Changes in Islamic Hermeneutics and Social Evolution: A Comparative Study of Turkey and Algeria by Sadik Kirazli
Early Differences and Sects in Islam Adapted largely from Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq (The Difference between the Sects) by Abu Tahir `Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi
The Sinlessness of the Prophets in Light of the Qur'an by R. Azzam
Transformed Politics By Ahmed E. Souaiaia
The Book of Commentary (Kitab Al-Tafsir)
Al-Qaida and al-Qur’an: The “Tafsir” of Usamah bin Ladin by © Rosalind Gwynne
Avoiding Imitation of the Kuffar Based largely on Shaykh Ahmad al-Ghumari's "al-Istinfar li-ghazw al-tashabbuh bi l-kuffaar"
A Translation of Extracts from the Kitab al-Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir Al-Sulami (d. 1106) by Niall Christie
Resisting Modernity The Backlash Against Secularism By Karen Armstrong
Addressing Fundamentalism by Legal and Spiritual Means By Dan Wessner
Islam: “Authentic” or “Fanatical” by Joseph Kenny, O.P.
Islamic Philosophy
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The Journal of Islamic Philosophy
NEW Islamic Philosophy Online
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
Essays by Iqbal by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
A History of Muslim Philosophy Edited and Introduced by M.M Sharif
Shi'i Philosophy Texts
The influence of Islamic Philosophy on Maimonides's Thought by Diana Steigerwald
Islamic Ethics by Azim Nanji
LIBERAL ISLAM WEB SITES Collected by Charles Kurzman
History of Ideas
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Tractatus Theologico-politicus by Benedict de Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF by Blaise Pascal
The Education of The Human Race (1778) by Gotthold Lessing
The Reasonableness of Christianity by John Locke(1743-1826)
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION by David Hume
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
THE LIFE OF JESUS CRITICALLY EXAMINED by DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see the entry on Absolute Spirit)
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
"The Meaning of Ascetic Ideals," from The Geneaolgy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzche
Links
NEW Islam in the 21st Century Links by New Perspectives Quarterly
NEW Liberal Islam Network
Special Topics
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NEW Islam and Slavery
NEW Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. Oxford Univ Press 1994
NEW Column: Free speech, slavery and Islam by Bala Ambati (Sweep of Daylight)
NEW COMPARISON BETWEEN ISLAM AND FARRAKHANISM
NEW Where Are The Liberals? In the fight against slavery in Africa, they seem to have disappeared. By Charles Jacobs
Christian Fundamentalism
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NEW Lecture: Fundamentalism
NEW FUNDAMENTALISM By R. Scott Appleby and Martin E. Marty
NEW Christian Zionism
NEW The Royal Race of the Redeemed? Christian Nazism Exposed by Lewis Loflin
NEW Encyclopedia of Religion
and Society: FUNDAMENTALISM
NEW How the Fundamentalists Learned to Thrive by William Martin
NEW Lecture: The Religious Right and the Christian Coalition by William Martin
NEW The Rise of Fundamentalism by Grant Wacker
NEW Bibliography: Dominion Theology / Theonomy / Christian Resonstruction
Background to Mideast Colonialism
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Geopolitics in Iraq an old game By Henry C K Liu [A series of articles. Be sure to click the link for the next installment in the series.]
Emerson
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"Divinity School Address" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Lord's Supper" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson and Religion BY David M. Robinson
Emerson and the Death of Pathos BY W. Ross Winterowd
Emerson and Nietzsche
Legacy of Transcendentalism: Religion and Philosophy; Heaven on Earth: The Legacy of 19th Century Transcendentalism as an Ecumenical Philosophy of Nature by Meg Brulatour
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project by © Paul P. Reuben
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson and Transcendentalism
Emerson's Earliest Interest In Indiaby Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Emerson's Enduring Dialog With Dharma
Inter-religious Dialogue
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Advocating for the Devil: Hearing Al-Qaeda's Case Against the United States by James S. Spiegel
Religion in the American Public Square: An Islamic Perspective by Ismail Royer
HUBRIS AND HUMILITY Christian Perplexity at the Pluralism of Faith
Hick the Inclusivist: Religious Pluralism as Unstable Middle Ground
Religious Pluralism and Knowledge of the True God: Fraternal Reflection and Discussion The Faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary
RELIGIOUS ETHICAL PLURALISM by Marc Gopin
Religion and Modern Thought Module leader: Dr Victoria S. Harrison
Soren Kierkegaard
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Kierkegaard and the Present Age
Nietzsche's Criticism of the Herd Mentality and Kierkegaard's Individual by Danielle Stevens
Earnestness or Estheticism: Post 9/11 Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Two Views of Death by W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Kierkegaard on the Internet: Anonymity vrs. Commitment in the Present Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus
KIERKEGAARD’S ILLUSION OF CHRISTENDOM AND ATTACK ON CHRISTENDOM By J. L. Craft
Kierkegaard’s media critic in the age of reflection By EGUCHI Satoshi Kyoto Women’s University, Japan
Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility reviewed by George Pattison
"THE CROWD IS UNTRUTH": A COMPARISON OF KIERKEGAARD AND GIRARD By Charles K. Bellinger
Toward a Kierkegaardian Understanding of Hitler, Stalin, and the Cold War By Charles K. Bellinger
"Kierkegaard and Feminism: A Paradoxical Friendship By Dera Sipe
Subjectivity and Resistance to Capitalist Legitimization
Kierkegaard, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Culture by George Pattison (sample chapter from his book of the same name)
Kierkegaard and Psychology
Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts By María G. Amilburu
Kierkegaard the Pathologist By Alastair Hannay (requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)
Kierkegaard and the Lover By M. Jamie Ferreira (requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)
The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard By Daryl J. Wennemann
Kierkegaard: Copernicus of the Spirit By Charles K. Bellinger
Shirin Ebadi
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Defusing Iran with democracy - Los Angeles Times By Shirin Ebadi and Muhammad Sahimi
Some articles by Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi at Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia
Celebrating Shirin Ebadi By Amir Taheri
Interview with Iranian Activist Shirin Ebadi
A tough place to be a woman with a cause
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate by Valentine M. Moghadam
Excerpts from the book, Women's Rights in the Laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Shirin Ebadi (Published in Iran in 2002) Chapter 5 - Cultural Policies Towards Women
Don Cupitt
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Lecture: "A New Method of Religious Enquiry" by Don Cupitt
A Critical Introduction to the Implications of ‘Outsidelessness’ in Don Cupitt’s Christian Humanism
RELIGIOUS LIFE AFTER GOD'S DEATH A Review of Don Cupitt's After God: The Future of Religion
Don Cupitt Website
The Public
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Jürgen Habermas and the Public Sphere
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention
Parsing Habermas's "bourgeois public sphere" by Michael McKeon
The Internet and the Public Sphere: Revitalization or Decay? by Christopher D. Hunter
Polemos, Universitas by Brett Neilson & Angela Mitropoulos
CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere by Mark Poster
Kierkegaard on the Information Highway by Hubert L. Dreyfus
TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL POLITICS: A Conversation with Martin Matustik
Feminine Voices
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ISLAMIC LAW, SECULARISM AND FEMINISM: A NEW RELATIONSHIP Reviwed by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: the Limits of Postmodern Analysis, by Haideh Moghissi Reviwed by Asma Barlas
Iran Bulletin: Links to Articles on Women in Islam
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) links to other sites
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the crisis of civil society by Elham Gheytanchi
ISLAMIC TRADITIONS AND THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT: CONFRONTATION OR COOPERATION? by Dr. Lois Lamya' al Faruqi
Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives -- Introduction by Mai Yamani
At the Crossroads of Islamic Feminism: Negotiating the gender politics of identity By Maliha Masood
WEB RESOURCES ON WOMEN IN ISLAM COMPILED BY JANET FRENCH
Women in Islam: Muslim Women links to other sites
Islamic Feminism vs. Western Feminism: Analyzing a Conceptual Conflict by Jennifer S. Kingan
Islam and feminism: Problems with Ahmed an email exchange
Comment on Barbara Bergmann's and Katha Pollitt's attack on Leila Ahmed (post 1) an email exchange
Nobel Choice Sends Message to American Feminists Commentary, Fadwa El Guindi,
Pacific News Service, Oct 22, 2003
Islam and Feminism: Bibliography
Bibliography: Women and Islam
Women in Islam
NEW Resources for and about Muslim Women
Islam and Gender in the Malay World compiled by Julie Shackford-Bradley
Annotating Islam by Douglas McCollam
Other Voices
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Theories on the Psychology of Violence: An Address to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists by Charles K. Bellinger
Reinventing Islam in Europe: a profile of Tariq Ramadan by Rosemary Bechler
A bridge across fear: an interview with Tariq Ramadan by Rosemary Bechler
bell hooks and the Politics of Literacy: A Conversation by Gary A. Olson
Compassion and Terror by Martha Nussbaum
Heidegger on the Connection between Nihilism, Art, Technology and Politics by Hubert Dreyfus
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Fixation of Belief by Charles S. Peirce
The Christian of the Future (full text) by Karl Rahner
"Violence and the Vulnerable Face of the Other: The Vision Of Emmanuel Levinas on Moral Evil and Our Responsibility" by Roger Burggraeve
"Levinas's Agapeistic Metaphysics of Morals" by John J. Davenport
"--Jacques Derrida, from Religion; "Faith and Knowledge; The Two Sources of 'Religion at the Limits of Reason Alone"" by Jacques Derrida
"Faith and Knowledge: Two sources of 'religion' within the limit of Pure Reason" by Jacques Derrida
"PIETY, POWER, AND BARE LIFE: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON IN THE NAME OF RELIGION?" by CLAYTON CROCKETT
"WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY, WITHOUT BEING: UNCONDITIONALITY, THE COMING GOD AND DERRIDA’S DEMOCRACY TO COME" by JOHN D. CAPUTO
"Derrida, panelists see growth in religion's political and social influence " BY JOHN SANFORD
"Religious Tolerance—The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights*" BY JÜRGEN HABERMAS
"Human Rights and Its Discontents" A lecture by Slavoj Zizek
"'The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other'" by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann (an interview with Slavoj Zizek)
Eqbal Ahmed
Islam on Human Nature and the Universe: A Comparison with Buddhism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism by Mustansir Mir
The religious availability of John Dewey's God by Copyright © 1997 by Christopher L. Walton
Apocalyptic Radicalism and Religion by Tzvee Zahavy (c) 1990
Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida by Giovanna Borradori
Academic Studies
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RADICAL ISLAM AND THE SPECTER OF THE DESERT – OTHERWISE, THE CALL OF THEORY by CARL RASCHKE
CAPITALISM AND RELIGION: A review of Philip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety by LARS IYER
"The Rhetoric of Bush and bin Laden"--an excerpt from Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion after September 11 by Bruce Lincoln
An excerpt from the Introduction by R. Scott Appleby to Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East edited by R. Scott
Journals
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The Journal of Islamic Philosophy
Logos Online: a journal of modern society & culture
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Links to other journals
Political
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The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger? by Slavoj Zizek
An Interview with Bell Hooks
'I have not jumped off the modernity boat' An interview with Francis Fukuyama, by Helene Guldberg
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Introduction
Identifying the pathways that religion might take in the future calls for prophecy. This course will attempt not prophecy but a rational search for certain trajectories that religion in the modern world has traced. In time and space, we must face where and when we are. Starting from America and after such a defining moment as 911, we will follow the trajectory as it bends its way through the centuries and space.
After 9/11, two of the world’s great cultural centers appear to be in conflict--specifically, extremist Islam and the western countries. This conflict gives the appearance of being about religion. That is, the extremist Islamists say that it is about a Christian-inspired crusade meant to usurp and rob Moslems of their precious spiritual heritage and culture. From the western perspective, there is the perception that an extremist form of religious fanaticism has arisen to oppose rights and values that form the core of western secular civilization; rights and values, it is believed, that all peoples everywhere share and wish to have were they to have the chance.
Religion is an important part of many societies around the world; religion offers adherents a way of acting morally, attaining authentic selves, and honoring and respecting powers that transcend human power. Traditional religion in the western nations has been in decline for a century or more. In its place has arisen secularism. Some religious thinkers in the west have seen secularism as the result of spiritual decline rather than advance. We have read three: Emerson, Kierkegaard, and Weil. For all three of these thinkers, the individual seems to be at the focus of their concerns. In many ways, they see a de-emphasis and degradation of the human image in favor of an overall social conformism which values mass consumption, experiential fragmentation, and legalistic talk of rights over individual responsibility, justice, and compassion.
In the Middle Eastern context, after a hundred years of colonialism by the western powers, an extreme form of Islam has arisen to take back the cultural and religious identity that they believe western exploitation has robbed them of. In their colonialist exploitation of this region, the western powers have arbitrarily created nation states, deposed and imposed political leaders, fomented wars between factions, and imported western style political and social ideas in an attempt to implement them. The result has been an ever-growing anomie and resentment in the Middle East against this exploitation. Islamic religious thinkers have attempted to combat this situation by returning to the sources of Islam and trying to use that framework to analyze, critique, and develop solutions.
It appears that religious thinkers from the west and the Middle East diagnose similar problems and present cures. The diagnoses appear to correlate, although the solutions do not. These authors believe that the ills they have identified have various social, political, and religious symptoms. Yet, their solutions to this state of affairs differ in dramatic ways.
In many ways, we will hear the voice of the divine as it speaks from those in the wilderness--Emerson in backward colonial America, Kierkegaard on the fringes of northern Europe, Weil a secular Jew coming to religion through Marxism, Sayid Qutb in an Egyptian jail, and Albert Camus the european stranger born in Arabic Morocco.
These voices are prophetic in their critique of modern culture and religion. Although from different socio-cultural backgrounds, they share many of the same criticisms of the modern, western world. From economic alienation, to psychological anomie, to religious nihilism, they share a view of the emptiness of modern values and attempt to bring to life the individual conscience and the need for revisioning on God.
What they do not share is a statement of solutions. Emerson chose to attempt a vision of the unity of all religions, Kierkegaard stressed the individual and his/her relationship with a transcendent God, Weil moved towards a saintly politics with personal awareness of Christ's presence, Qutb a radical (perhaps violent) rejection of all western values and the return to the Quran and Sharia, and Camus spoke of authentic rebellion in an absurd universe (where God is dead) tempered with humanity and love.
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Recent Documents
Fundamentalism
When Not Seeing Is Believing By ANDREW SULLIVAN
Islamic Fundamentalism Feared, Misunderstood By MARGOT PATTERSON
The rise of global fundamentalism By MARGOT PATTERSON
Religion Interconnects, Conflicts on All Fronts Interview with Martin E. Marty
Religion Interconnects, Conflicts on All Fronts Interview with Martin E. Marty
America and Fundamentalism
For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility
View of God can predict values, politics By Cathy Lynn Grossman
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening' By Peter Baker
America’s Foundations, Foundationalisms, and Fundamentalisms by J. G. A. Pocock (see the .pdf to download)
Dangerous Religion by Jim Wallis
The Cultural Contradictions of Christian Fundamentalism by Guy Rundle
WITH OR WITHOUT PASSION: What's Wrong with Fundamentalism? - Part I by Slavoj Zizek
Radical Right Christians
The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians By jodi dean
Holy War: As the Middle East burns, GOP pols, neocon pundits, and a powerful Christian right leader all sing the same (crazy) tune. By Sarah Posner
Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy By Ross Douthat
Faith and nationalism: Indivisible in America By Michael Medved
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock by LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Putting “theocracy” fears in their place by dpulliam
Public Stoning: Not Just for the Taliban Anymore by John Sugg
Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism By Matthew Tostevin
David Byrne on Jesus Camps: like Madrassas, with less literacy By Xeni Jardin
Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism By Max Blumenthal
Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric Before and After September 11, 2001 by Erin Runions
Leaving politics aside? by Mollie
End Times
Pastor John Hagee on Christian Zionism By NPR
Expediting the end By LOUIS SAHAGUN
Left Behind Christian sf novels turned into bigoted video-game by Cory Doctorow
CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "[A]re we living in the last days?" by Media Matters
Video: Some Christians see Biblical endtimes in middle east violence by RawStory
Israel
The Bible's Role in American Support for Israel by Daniel Pipes
"Islamo-Fascism"
In Europe, Islam rises, Christianity falls BY TOM HUNDLEY
Right-Wing ‘Guide to World War III’: ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out’ by Think Progress
Islam, Middle East and Fascism by Ibn Warraq
You are now entering Eurabia Written by Matt Carr
More right-wing paranoia from the US Written by David J. Jonsson
Islam vs. Civilization: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Written by Raymond Kraft
Islamic terrorism linked to Nazi fascists by Robert Duncan
Why Are We Suddenly At War With "Islamic Fascists"? A Neologism that Signals a Change in Strategy As Elections Near By JOHN W. DEAN
Arabs/Moslems/Terrorists
Globalized Islam - Interview with Olivier Roy
Faithful consider liberal reforms by Irshad Manji
The Duty to Think Rationally by Shaykh Daoud Sharafuddin Rosser-Owen
Please explain the divide? By dpulliam
Support for Bin Laden, Violence Down Among Muslims, Poll Says By Robin Wright
Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics: Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics By Pew Research Poll
Islamic radical groups are not all alike by LAURA ROZEN
The Muslim malaise by HAROON SIDDIQUI
The "new Orientalism" by Alastair Crooke
Islamic evangelism: Islam in Europe by Olivier Roy
A Glance into the Archives of Islam by Slavoj Zizek
The age of horrorism by Martin Amis
Neoconservatism
Neoconservatives and their Blueprint for US Power by Christian Science Monitor
What is a Neoconservative and Does It Matter? by Dale Vree
Flirting with Fascism: Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right. By John Laughland
Michael Ledeen By Sourcewatch
Christianity-Islam In Dialog?
THE POPE AND ISLAM: THE TRUE DEBATE By Tariq Ramadan
NEW STUDY SHOWS CHANGING EVANGELICAL VIEWS ON ISLAM SINCE 9/11 by Richard Cimino
Apocalypse now by Azmi Bishara
New Developments in Christianity
Americans May Be More Religious Than They Realize: Many Without Denomination Have Congregation, Study Finds By Michelle Boorstein
Some Say 20 Million Participate In Emerging Church Movement by Antonio Mora, Reporting
Growing: Movement is new form of evangelism by Tony Campolo
Leaders call 'Emerging Church Movement' a threat to Gospel by David Roach, Baptist Press
Getting rid of parishioners . . . on purpose by Mollie
Atheism
Newsweek on being an atheist by dpulliam
Atheism is a legacy worth fighting for by Slavoj Zizek
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Historical Background
Ancient
The Republic by Plato
European
Renaissance and Reformation by William Gilbert
Lectures in Medieval History by Lynn H. Nelson
Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
Internet Modern History Sourcebooh: The Early Modern West
The European Enlightenment
Internet Modern History Sourcebooh: The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
AGE OF REASON AND ENLIGHTENMEMT: 1650-1800 by Dr. Robert L. Jefferson
Karl Marx: Selected Works
The United States
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Research Links for Religion in American History by Dr. Robert L. Jefferson
Rutgers University Virtual Religion Index: American Studies
Yale University's American Religious History -- Resource Links
Wabash Center Religion in the United States and Canada
Religion and Revolution
Religion in America
The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln
Enlightenment in America
Lincoln's Faith in God
The Enlightenment
Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State
Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter
Critique of David Barton's "America's Godly Heritage"
The Myth of
the Separation of Church and State
Islam
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Timeline of Islamic History
Islam, the Modern World, and the West by Professor Alan Godlas
University of Texas: Islam Religion and Spirituality
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Islam Chronology
Islamic History
Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic, Religion: Resources for Studying Islam
Koranic Exegesis (tafsir)
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Review: Die syro-aramaeische Lesart des Koran; Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Qur’ānsprache
by Robert R. PHENIX Jr. and Cornelia B. HORN
The Qur'an and Qur'anic Interpretation (tafsir)
Damning History but Saving the Text: Fazlur Rahman between Tradition and Modernism by S Parvez Manzoor
The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl On reading the Qur'an—and misreading it.
Disclosing the Ambiguous Text By: Sumanto al Qurtuby
The prime theological challenge in the recent religious life is: How does someone religious define himself surrounded by another religions. Or in its contemporary theological terms: How to theologize in the religious context.
The Message of Fazlur Rahman by M Yahya Birt
Observing the Contemporary Model of Ijma’ By: Taufik Adnan Amal
The ijma‘ mechanism also open to the possibility of public deliberation and debate, so that various developing point of views individually as well as collectively get the opportunity to be heard by people who eventually will achieve consensus. When the majority decision is achieved, all the member of society – Muslim and non Muslim- must attempt to implement it. The initiator, adherent or whoever agrees with the minority view must accept the majority’s decision and try to implement it as a consensus.
The Koran was not Revealed in an Empty Space By: M. Hilaly Basya
It is obvious that the Koran was not revealed in an empty space. And it is obvious that the Koran is culturally constructed and historically structured. Hence, if the Koran reading is detached of the cultural element constructing it, it will be alienated and irrelevant. Therefore, we may say that Koranic textual content is not valid in every time and place. The Koran is confined within space and time.
Factors behind the Stagnancy of Fikh By: Fajar Kurnianto
Fikh is understood as knowledge about sharia and both are not identical. There is a significant difference between knowledge about sharia and the law of sharia. Fikh eventually has a different domain to sharia. Sharia is a divine universal teaching for human benefit. Sharia in that meaning is non-discriminative upon certain groups or individual.
Religious Figures and Political Choice By: Saiful Amien Sholihin
Approaching the 2004 elections, many articles have criticized the validity of ulema’s (Muslim scholar) and kiai’s involvement in political practices within political parties. Some have argued that kiai (religious leaders) should concentrate only on religious and social fields.
The What is the Koran by Toby Lester
Discusses the controversial attempts to use the methods of historical criticism in the context of the Koran.
The ‘Ulama’: status and function by Zouhair Ghazzal
Surat al-Ma'un [Tafsir of al-Ma'un taken from a number of traditional sources]
Changes in Islamic Hermeneutics and Social Evolution: A Comparative Study of Turkey and Algeria by Sadik Kirazli
Early Differences and Sects in Islam Adapted largely from Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq (The Difference between the Sects) by Abu Tahir `Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi
The Sinlessness of the Prophets in Light of the Qur'an by R. Azzam
Transformed Politics By Ahmed E. Souaiaia
The Book of Commentary (Kitab Al-Tafsir)
Al-Qaida and al-Qur’an: The “Tafsir” of Usamah bin Ladin by © Rosalind Gwynne
Avoiding Imitation of the Kuffar Based largely on Shaykh Ahmad al-Ghumari's "al-Istinfar li-ghazw al-tashabbuh bi l-kuffaar"
A Translation of Extracts from the Kitab al-Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir Al-Sulami (d. 1106) by Niall Christie
Resisting Modernity The Backlash Against Secularism By Karen Armstrong
Addressing Fundamentalism by Legal and Spiritual Means By Dan Wessner
Islam: “Authentic” or “Fanatical” by Joseph Kenny, O.P.
Islamic Philosophy
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The Journal of Islamic Philosophy
NEW Islamic Philosophy Online
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
Essays by Iqbal by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
A History of Muslim Philosophy Edited and Introduced by M.M Sharif
Shi'i Philosophy Texts
The influence of Islamic Philosophy on Maimonides's Thought by Diana Steigerwald
Islamic Ethics by Azim Nanji
LIBERAL ISLAM WEB SITES Collected by Charles Kurzman
History of Ideas
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Tractatus Theologico-politicus by Benedict de Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF by Blaise Pascal
The Education of The Human Race (1778) by Gotthold Lessing
The Reasonableness of Christianity by John Locke(1743-1826)
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION by David Hume
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
THE LIFE OF JESUS CRITICALLY EXAMINED by DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see the entry on Absolute Spirit)
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
"The Meaning of Ascetic Ideals," from The Geneaolgy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzche
Links
NEW Islam in the 21st Century Links by New Perspectives Quarterly
NEW Liberal Islam Network
Special Topics
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NEW Islam and Slavery
NEW Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. Oxford Univ Press 1994
NEW Column: Free speech, slavery and Islam by Bala Ambati (Sweep of Daylight)
NEW COMPARISON BETWEEN ISLAM AND FARRAKHANISM
NEW Where Are The Liberals? In the fight against slavery in Africa, they seem to have disappeared. By Charles Jacobs
Christian Fundamentalism
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NEW Lecture: Fundamentalism
NEW FUNDAMENTALISM By R. Scott Appleby and Martin E. Marty
NEW Christian Zionism
NEW The Royal Race of the Redeemed? Christian Nazism Exposed by Lewis Loflin
NEW Encyclopedia of Religion
and Society: FUNDAMENTALISM
NEW How the Fundamentalists Learned to Thrive by William Martin
NEW Lecture: The Religious Right and the Christian Coalition by William Martin
NEW The Rise of Fundamentalism by Grant Wacker
NEW Bibliography: Dominion Theology / Theonomy / Christian Resonstruction
Background to Mideast Colonialism
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Geopolitics in Iraq an old game By Henry C K Liu [A series of articles. Be sure to click the link for the next installment in the series.]
Emerson
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"Divinity School Address" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Lord's Supper" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson and Religion BY David M. Robinson
Emerson and the Death of Pathos BY W. Ross Winterowd
Emerson and Nietzsche
Legacy of Transcendentalism: Religion and Philosophy; Heaven on Earth: The Legacy of 19th Century Transcendentalism as an Ecumenical Philosophy of Nature by Meg Brulatour
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project by © Paul P. Reuben
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson and Transcendentalism
Emerson's Earliest Interest In Indiaby Robert C. Gordon, PhD
Emerson's Enduring Dialog With Dharma
Inter-religious Dialogue
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Advocating for the Devil: Hearing Al-Qaeda's Case Against the United States by James S. Spiegel
Religion in the American Public Square: An Islamic Perspective by Ismail Royer
HUBRIS AND HUMILITY Christian Perplexity at the Pluralism of Faith
Hick the Inclusivist: Religious Pluralism as Unstable Middle Ground
Religious Pluralism and Knowledge of the True God: Fraternal Reflection and Discussion The Faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary
RELIGIOUS ETHICAL PLURALISM by Marc Gopin
Religion and Modern Thought Module leader: Dr Victoria S. Harrison
Soren Kierkegaard
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Nietzsche's Criticism of the Herd Mentality and Kierkegaard's Individual by Danielle Stevens
Earnestness or Estheticism: Post 9/11 Reflections on Kierkegaard’s Two Views of Death by W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Kierkegaard on the Internet: Anonymity vrs. Commitment in the Present Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus
KIERKEGAARD’S ILLUSION OF CHRISTENDOM AND ATTACK ON CHRISTENDOM By J. L. Craft
Kierkegaard’s media critic in the age of reflection By EGUCHI Satoshi Kyoto Women’s University, Japan
Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility reviewed by George Pattison
"THE CROWD IS UNTRUTH": A COMPARISON OF KIERKEGAARD AND GIRARD By Charles K. Bellinger
Toward a Kierkegaardian Understanding of Hitler, Stalin, and the Cold War By Charles K. Bellinger
"Kierkegaard and Feminism: A Paradoxical Friendship By Dera Sipe
Subjectivity and Resistance to Capitalist Legitimization
Kierkegaard, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Culture by George Pattison (sample chapter from his book of the same name)
Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts By María G. Amilburu
Kierkegaard the Pathologist By Alastair Hannay (requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)
Kierkegaard and the Lover By M. Jamie Ferreira (requires Acrobat Reader 6.0)
The Role of Love in the Thought of Kant and Kierkegaard By Daryl J. Wennemann
Kierkegaard: Copernicus of the Spirit By Charles K. Bellinger
Shirin Ebadi
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Defusing Iran with democracy - Los Angeles Times By Shirin Ebadi and Muhammad Sahimi
Some articles by Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi at Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia
Celebrating Shirin Ebadi By Amir Taheri
Interview with Iranian Activist Shirin Ebadi
A tough place to be a woman with a cause
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate by Valentine M. Moghadam
Excerpts from the book, Women's Rights in the Laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Shirin Ebadi (Published in Iran in 2002) Chapter 5 - Cultural Policies Towards Women
Don Cupitt
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Lecture: "A New Method of Religious Enquiry" by Don Cupitt
A Critical Introduction to the Implications of ‘Outsidelessness’ in Don Cupitt’s Christian Humanism
RELIGIOUS LIFE AFTER GOD'S DEATH A Review of Don Cupitt's After God: The Future of Religion
Don Cupitt Website
The Public
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Jürgen Habermas and the Public Sphere
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention
Parsing Habermas's "bourgeois public sphere" by Michael McKeon
The Internet and the Public Sphere: Revitalization or Decay? by Christopher D. Hunter
Polemos, Universitas by Brett Neilson & Angela Mitropoulos
CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere by Mark Poster
Kierkegaard on the Information Highway by Hubert L. Dreyfus
TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL POLITICS: A Conversation with Martin Matustik
Feminine Voices
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ISLAMIC LAW, SECULARISM AND FEMINISM: A NEW RELATIONSHIP Reviwed by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: the Limits of Postmodern Analysis, by Haideh Moghissi Reviwed by Asma Barlas
Iran Bulletin: Links to Articles on Women in Islam
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) links to other sites
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the crisis of civil society by Elham Gheytanchi
ISLAMIC TRADITIONS AND THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT: CONFRONTATION OR COOPERATION? by Dr. Lois Lamya' al Faruqi
Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives -- Introduction by Mai Yamani
At the Crossroads of Islamic Feminism: Negotiating the gender politics of identity By Maliha Masood
WEB RESOURCES ON WOMEN IN ISLAM COMPILED BY JANET FRENCH
Women in Islam: Muslim Women links to other sites
Islamic Feminism vs. Western Feminism: Analyzing a Conceptual Conflict by Jennifer S. Kingan
Islam and feminism: Problems with Ahmed an email exchange
Comment on Barbara Bergmann's and Katha Pollitt's attack on Leila Ahmed (post 1) an email exchange
Nobel Choice Sends Message to American Feminists Commentary, Fadwa El Guindi,
Pacific News Service, Oct 22, 2003
Islam and Feminism: Bibliography
Bibliography: Women and Islam
Women in Islam
NEW Resources for and about Muslim Women
Islam and Gender in the Malay World compiled by Julie Shackford-Bradley
Annotating Islam by Douglas McCollam
Other Voices
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Theories on the Psychology of Violence: An Address to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists by Charles K. Bellinger
Reinventing Islam in Europe: a profile of Tariq Ramadan by Rosemary Bechler
A bridge across fear: an interview with Tariq Ramadan by Rosemary Bechler
bell hooks and the Politics of Literacy: A Conversation by Gary A. Olson
Compassion and Terror by Martha Nussbaum
Heidegger on the Connection between Nihilism, Art, Technology and Politics by Hubert Dreyfus
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Fixation of Belief by Charles S. Peirce
The Christian of the Future (full text) by Karl Rahner
"Violence and the Vulnerable Face of the Other: The Vision Of Emmanuel Levinas on Moral Evil and Our Responsibility" by Roger Burggraeve
"Levinas's Agapeistic Metaphysics of Morals" by John J. Davenport
"--Jacques Derrida, from Religion; "Faith and Knowledge; The Two Sources of 'Religion at the Limits of Reason Alone"" by Jacques Derrida
"Faith and Knowledge: Two sources of 'religion' within the limit of Pure Reason" by Jacques Derrida
"PIETY, POWER, AND BARE LIFE: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON IN THE NAME OF RELIGION?" by CLAYTON CROCKETT
"WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY, WITHOUT BEING: UNCONDITIONALITY, THE COMING GOD AND DERRIDA’S DEMOCRACY TO COME" by JOHN D. CAPUTO
"Derrida, panelists see growth in religion's political and social influence " BY JOHN SANFORD
"Religious Tolerance—The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights*" BY JÜRGEN HABERMAS
"Human Rights and Its Discontents" A lecture by Slavoj Zizek
"'The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other'" by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann (an interview with Slavoj Zizek)
Eqbal Ahmed
Islam on Human Nature and the Universe: A Comparison with Buddhism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism by Mustansir Mir
The religious availability of John Dewey's God by Copyright © 1997 by Christopher L. Walton
Apocalyptic Radicalism and Religion by Tzvee Zahavy (c) 1990
Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida by Giovanna Borradori
Academic Studies
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RADICAL ISLAM AND THE SPECTER OF THE DESERT – OTHERWISE, THE CALL OF THEORY by CARL RASCHKE
CAPITALISM AND RELIGION: A review of Philip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety by LARS IYER
"The Rhetoric of Bush and bin Laden"--an excerpt from Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion after September 11 by Bruce Lincoln
An excerpt from the Introduction by R. Scott Appleby to Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East edited by R. Scott
Journals
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The Journal of Islamic Philosophy
Logos Online: a journal of modern society & culture
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Links to other journals
Political
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The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger? by Slavoj Zizek
An Interview with Bell Hooks
'I have not jumped off the modernity boat' An interview with Francis Fukuyama, by Helene Guldberg
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