Religion
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I don’t mean the politics of religion, but
religion
as
religion.
It is about freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and markets that, albeit regulated, also are free and predictable.
But the closed-minded have a powerful gut appeal, and
religion
plays into it.
And how many Muslims understand fully the Christian Reformation and what it taught believers about philosophy and
religion?
Sometimes we ignore it, hoping we can treat it as something other than
religion.
In short, we need religion-friendly democracy and democracy-friendly
religion.
Which group, society, nation, or
religion
speaks about us openly as their enemy.
Thus, Saudi women are barred from the legal profession on the basis of a Wahhabi stricture that “a woman is lacking in mind and religion.”
Religious Pluralism for a Pluralist AgeThe election of Pope Benedict XVI and the global war on terror have brought unprecedented attention to the role of
religion
in our world.
One exception is geographical: Western and Central Europe have indeed experienced a significant decline of religion, which has become an important ingredient of European cultural identity.
If freedom of
religion
is guaranteed – the typical situation in liberal democracies – religious institutions cannot rely on the state to fill their pews.
First, the rise of an Arab political class that is more influenced by
religion
than by secular nationalism has eroded the main structural barrier to Turkish engagement.
The Ottoman legacy of a working state structure, tolerant of religion, has begun to be viewed in a more favorable light, and the contemporary Turkish model, with its ability to nurture a democracy-friendly Islam, is suddenly in demand.
Human-rights abuses and violations of the rule of law should be denounced for what they are – without linking them to culture or
religion.
Is the West a concept defined above all by its political culture, i.e., democracy and human rights, by its cultural dimension, including religion, or merely by its diplomatic and strategic implications, i.e., facing the rise of new powers?
The West imagines that
religion
is the central issue in Afghanistan.
Income and class cleavages, in contrast to identity cleavages based on race, ethnicity, or religion, have traditionally strengthened the political left.
Yet, like most wars, this one is about more than religion, fanaticism, and ideology.
The two things that get people most excited in cultural conflicts are
religion
and sex, specifically the way that men treat women.
They are of course intimately linked:
religion
is commonly used as a way to regulate sexual behavior and relations between the sexes.
In other words, the DSK case was part of another clash of cultures over sex, and, if only tangentially,
religion.
Extremists who hijack
religion
threaten governments and people everywhere.
Moreover, the popular appeal of radical religion, ideology, and misinformation should not be underestimated.
“But we Japanese,” he writes, “don’t have a
religion
such as Christianity or Islam, so we need something else: deep emotion.”
Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in
religion
is good because it boosts economic performance.
He thus sought to subvert
religion
by making it purely instrumental.
And, above all, Turkey is now a role model for other Islamic societies striving to accommodate democracy, civil liberties, the rule of law, an open economy, pluralism, and
religion.
These people feared the comeback of religion; that the Protestant or Catholic oppressiveness they knew first-hand might be replaced by equally oppressive Muslim codes of conduct.
Many will not abandon their religion, so Europeans must learn to live with them and with Islam.
Our laws prohibiting incitement to violence and insulting people for reasons of their
religion
are sufficient.
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