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Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.
This argues not simply for keeping nationalism in check, but for allowing greater political and religious freedom so that there are alternative sources of legitimacy and allegiance in Chinese society beyond that of economic advancement.
It is a platform for political and religious opposition groups in the Arab countries.
Liberals who welcome it as a beacon of freedom and progress in the Arab world confront those who accuse it of Islamism and religious radicalization.
Islamic EvangelismMany believe that religious revival and political radicalism among Muslims who reside in the West reflects the traditions and conflicts of the Middle East or the wider Muslim world.
But Islamic Salafism (fundamentalist religious radicalism) is above all a consequence of the globalization and Westernization of Islam, and of the decoupling of culture and religion more generally.
All forms of religious fundamentalism rely on the notion of a "pure" religion independent of cultural variations and influences.
Ulemas (religious scholars) are useless for believers who must search for purely religious criteria that are no longer linked to a given culture.
The real issue is not a theoretical question about Islam, but concerns the religious practices of Muslims.
Of course, religious fundamentalists of whatever stripe often emphasize similar codes, norms, and values.
But on this subject and others - say, family and abortion - religious Muslims in Europe side with conservative Christians.
A disciple of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros has promoted open societies as the ultimate guarantee of freedom from tyranny and religious or ideological indoctrination, and as a powerful weapon against rising social inequality.
We recognize that child marriage is a deeply embedded tradition in many societies – all too often sanctioned by religious leaders.
We actively seek wider engagement with religious leaders on this issue.
The fact that religious leaders condone and sanction it in many societies owes more to custom and tradition than doctrine.
Syria needs to manage its diverse ethnic and religious composition, and to decide its own position on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Syria is particularly vulnerable in this regard, as extremists incite violence against minority religious groups by using, for example, television stations in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The incitement against Syrian religious minorities promulgated by extremist TV stations, and by people like the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council, coupled with equally damaging behavior by Iran, if left unchecked, could result in an even worse bloodbath, with Syria's people drawn into a war of all against all.
In particular, the US, which has significant influence in Saudi Arabia, must act to stop attacks by that country's extremists on Syria's religious minorities - attacks motivated merely by a desire to provoke sectarian conflict.
While he promoted parliamentary rule in England, ended the civil war, and allowed a degree of religious toleration, he also supported the trial and execution of Charles I and brutally conquered Ireland in response to a perceived threat from an alliance of Irish Catholics and English Royalists.
The New Thirty Years’ WarNEW YORK – It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith.
In seventeenth-century Europe, a local religious uprising by Bohemian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II triggered that era’s conflagration.
Fueled by religious rhetoric and a bloody history, the conflict engenders a degree of passion and irrationality that is difficult to moderate.
The same is true of religious conflicts throughout the Middle East.
The world's largest democracy will soon be in action for the second time in two years in a desperate search to find a stable government, an extraordinarily difficult task now that the founding party of India's independence, Congress, is a pale shadow of its original self and the strengths of local, regional, religious and caste parties, not to say the phenomenal rise of the Hindu nationalist, Bharatiya Janata Party, are now the deciding factors in Indian politics.
Any kind of cultural, religious, or racial determinism is dangerous: unemployment and marginalization reflect socioeconomic processes, and we need clear social and economic policies to resolve them.
Cultural, racial, and religious dimensions may, of course, be subordinate factors that need to be considered, but they are not the main causes of unemployment and marginalization.
Indeed, contrary to what has become conventional wisdom (sadly, normalizing what far-right parties have been saying), young European Muslims do not have a problem with religious or cultural “integration.”
If America can move from a culture of fear to one of hope – and again incarnate hope for the world – it will require a leader who embodies the American dream: modern and armed with a humanistic religious message, in contrast to the anxious irrationalism of the Christian conservative movement that fueled Bush’s political base.
I suspect that, above all, mainstream politicians fear religious institutions that oppose voluntary euthanasia, even though individual believers often do not follow their religious leaders’ views.
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