... with lighting the fire of seventeenth-century “pluralism.” The cosmological writings of the seventeenth century presented a combination of anthropological interest, scientific restraint, and theological innovation—a combination most evident in Johannes Kepler’s research. The latter half of the century witnessed...

... incapable of implanting in the uterine wall. Flannery has been advocating against the use of live embryos. Franklin challenges his view and proposes keeping all research opportunities open to scientists, a policy she refers to as “stem cell pluralism.” Here they talk about the promise of induced pluripotent...

...This chapter explores toleration and coexistence in three interrelated sections. First, it rethinks the conceptual language of coexistence, toleration, and violence in order to apply them to the long history of Ottoman pluralism, where toleration set the stage for centuries of coexistence...

... under their patronage. The withdrawal of the European powers and the protection they had afforded the missionaries also contributed to the eroding of the Western missions. By the 1950s, the Middle East was increasingly regarded as “the Muslim world,” and religious pluralism was less and less acceptable...

... of introduction, it outlines ten major themes in American religious history, each containing within it a paradox: religious freedom and religiously sanctioned repression; (in)tolerance, diversity, and pluralism; racialized religion and the desire for a universal god; male hierarchy, female dominance, and gender...

...Maintains that Hannah Arendt saw friendship as a way to preserve pluralism in a delegitimized political environment. To address certain problems with her view, I draw on Cornelius Nepos’s "Life of Atticus" for a political vision of friendship that refuses the choice between being “with us...

... American Muslim TV series loyalty of immigrant groups tradition of requiring proof of New Muslim Cool film history pluralism inclusion liminality American Islam religious minority A study conducted in 2008 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life depicts a diverse and dynamic religious...

...; and Franklin's notion of what she calls “stem cell pluralism”. Cancer remains largely an enigmatic disease, according to some scientists—more accurately, a group of diseases with a family resemblance. Some tumors stay put, some metastasize. Some are hormone responsive, some are not. Theories of cancer etiology...

...The introduction sets the book within the broader context of religion in contemporary America. It discusses the nature of religion; Jews in America; and the Pew survey. Affiliation “Americanism ” Individualism Pluralism Religion in America Religious affiliation Religious choices Religious...

... very specific complaints. The coexistence of religion and politics forms a mode of pluralism that implies horizontal rather than hierarchical relations, not only between political and religious authority claims but also among faith communities. Pluralism is bound to leave both theocrats and civic...

... Georg W F incarnation in Christian theology and integral relation of divine and human secular liberalism inclusive communities social justice necessity of addressing in ecologically motivated restructuring of society Ecology Religion Individualism Interdisciplinarity Pluralism Hegel viability...

... and politics, the rise of fundamentalism, the role of gender and popular culture, and the problems and possibilities of pluralism. Geared toward general readers, students, researchers, and scholars, it provides concise yet broad surveys of specific fields, with an extensive glossary and bibliographies listing...

... anticolonial thinking nationalism citizenship nationality colonialism law legal pluralism When I was arrested by the police, I had to submit to interrogation. But I don’t know Arabic, how to speak it, or even how to write it. I don’t know any language but Greek. ” The police told me that they were sure...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of how Sufism promotes pluralism and tolerance. It specifically analyses the African Muslim nation of Senegal, which is known for its prevalence of Sufi Muslim brotherhoods. With its openness, Sufism somehow serves as a counter to “Political Islam...

...This chapter studies how the pluralistic orientation of the Senegalese Sufis serves as clear illustration of the many practical approaches to pluralism encountered in the Muslim world. It identifies the Senegalese method as “a kind of pragmatic pluralism” not grounded in a supposedly neutral...

.... This chapter delves deeper into the Senegalese model of religious and cultural pluralism, analyzing its three spheres—the republican sphere of the modern state (colonial and postcolonial), the religious sphere (including the Christian minority), and the cultural sphere of the patrias (Senegalese...

... This chapter was originally published in Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wurthnow, eds., Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights. This chapter analyzes the religious and cultural model of pluralism through the available comparative literatures on secularism, human rights...

... communities. Finally, it explores how the long history of intolerance of immigrant ethnicities and religions could not forestall the eventual development of a national identity defined by diversity and pluralism. immigration ethnicity and religion Dolan Jay P Immigrant Church The Dolan Ahlstrom Sidney E...

... of democracy even before change occurred. They also describe how innovative policies prevented dissident military groups, violent religious activists and secessionists from disrupting Indonesia's democratic evolution. The book concludes with a discussion of Indonesia's emerging “legal pluralism” and asks which...