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Theology: Comparative Religion

A collection of 14 posts

Theology: Comparative Religion

Evangelii Gaudium - Pope Francis on Muslims

From the archive (2014): Evangelii Gaudium on Muslims — institutional religious leadership choosing respect, and the depth the other side of the table requires.

The Caliphate Brings Trauma

Theology: Comparative Religion

The Caliphate Brings Trauma

From QeRN's 2014 caliphate conference: Daniel Pipes' paper, kept as a record of the debate. The live question underneath: institutions, not slogans, build capability.

Discussion: Caliphate as a Political System - Myth or Reality?

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Discussion: Caliphate as a Political System - Myth or Reality?

From the archive (2014): QeRN’s caliphate conference — subjecting the era’s most dangerous slogan to public scholarship, weeks after ISIS claimed it.

Theology: Comparative Religion

The Ugly Side of Voltaire

From the archive (2014): Voltaire’s ‘Mahomet’ read whole — admiration and criticism in one act, the mark of built intellectual confidence.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Guess who is Progressive on Women? Vatican or Al-Azhar?

From the archive (2013): Al-Azhar versus the Vatican on women’s rights — checking institutions against their reputations, empirically.

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Muslims: Treat Christmas with Due Respect

From the archive (2012): treating Christmas with due respect, grounded in the Quran’s regard for Jesus — counsel that needs only confidence, not updating.

Archive: Pakistan

Reality Check about Christians in Pakistan

From the archive (2011): a reality check on Christians in Pakistan — against caricature in both directions, the harder kind of honesty.

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Pope's Visit to Turkey

From the archive (2006): Benedict XVI in Turkey after Regensburg — institutions repairing what individuals damage; machinery, not sentiment.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Benedict XVI was Testing the Waters

From the archive (2006): Regensburg read as a probe — and the durable outcome: the institutions of Muslim–Christian dialogue it accidentally produced.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Moral Leadership, Disarmament and Latent Racism

Pope Benedict said the following [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/16/upope.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/16/ixportaltop.html] today: In a clear reference to Iran, he said: “Concerning the international crises linked to nuclear power, may an honourable solution be

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Humiliation for Turkey - possible end of the Attaturk chapter

From the archive (2004): Turkey’s EU rebuff read as the end of borrowed identity — a case study in anchoring identity in one’s own institutions.

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Conservative activist says Bush knows "real score" with Islam

From the archive (2004): the gap between presidential language on Islam and the political base — a gap minorities must learn, institutionally, to read.

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american frustration

From the archive (2002): the raw anger of the Guantanamo moment — kept as a record, alongside the lesson that patient institutional work outperformed it.

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Terrorism since 1492

From the archive (2001): a crowd-sourced ledger of state terror since 1492 — the urge to widen the lens, whose serious form is the discipline of history.