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Adaptation Strategies of Islamist Movements April 2017 Contents
POMEPS STUDIES 26 islam in a changing middle east Adaptation Strategies of Islamist Movements April 2017 Contents Understanding repression-adaptation nexus in Islamist movements . 4 Khalil al-Anani, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar Why Exclusion and Repression of Moderate Islamists Will Be Counterproductive . 8 Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY Islamists After the “Arab Spring”: What’s the Right Research Question and Comparison Group, and Why Does It Matter? . 12 Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton University The Islamist voter base during the Arab Spring: More ideology than protest? . .. 16 Eva Wegner, University College Dublin When Islamist Parties (and Women) Govern: Strategy, Authenticity and Women’s Representation . 21 Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State University Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Under the Islamic State . 26 Mara Revkin, Yale University and Ariel I. Ahram, Virginia Tech The Muslim Brotherhood Between Party and Movement . 31 Steven Brooke, The University of Louisville A Government of the Opposition: How Moroccan Islamists’ Dual Role Contributes to their Electoral Success . 34 Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young University The Cost of Inclusion: Ennahda and Tunisia’s Political Transition . 39 Monica Marks, University of Oxford Regime Islam, State Islam, and Political Islam: The Past and Future Contest . 43 Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University Middle East regimes are using ‘moderate’ Islam to stay in power . 47 Annelle Sheline, George Washington University Reckoning with a Fractured Islamist Landscape in Yemen . 49 Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges The Lumpers and the Splitters: Two very different policy approaches on dealing with Islamism . 54 Marc Lynch, George Washington University The Project on Middle East Political Science The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) is a collaborative network that aims to increase the impact of political scientists specializing in the study of the Middle East in the public sphere and in the academic community . -
A Contextual Examination of Three Historical Stages of Atheism and the Legality of an American Freedom from Religion
ABSTRACT Rejecting the Definitive: A Contextual Examination of Three Historical Stages of Atheism and the Legality of an American Freedom from Religion Ethan Gjerset Quillen, B.A., M.A., M.A. Mentor: T. Michael Parrish, Ph.D. The trouble with “definitions” is they leave no room for evolution. When a word is concretely defined, it is done so in a particular time and place. Contextual interpretations permit a better understanding of certain heavy words; Atheism as a prime example. In the post-modern world Atheism has become more accepted and popular, especially as a reaction to global terrorism. However, the current definition of Atheism is terribly inaccurate. It cannot be stated properly that pagan Atheism is the same as New Atheism. By interpreting the Atheisms from four stages in the term‟s history a clearer picture of its meaning will come out, hopefully alleviating the stereotypical biases weighed upon it. In the interpretation of the Atheisms from Pagan Antiquity, the Enlightenment, the New Atheist Movement, and the American Judicial and Civil Religious system, a defense of the theory of elastic contextual interpretations, rather than concrete definitions, shall be made. Rejecting the Definitive: A Contextual Examination of Three Historical Stages of Atheism and the Legality of an American Freedom from Religion by Ethan Gjerset Quillen, B.A., M.A. A Thesis Approved by the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies ___________________________________ Robyn L. Driskell, Ph.D., Interim Chairperson Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Approved by the Thesis Committee ___________________________________ T. -
The Role of Religion in Public Life and Official Pressure to Participate in Alcoholics Anonymous, 65 U
University of Kentucky UKnowledge Law Faculty Scholarly Articles Law Faculty Publications Summer 1997 The Role of Religion in Public Life and Official essurPr e to Participate in Alcoholics Anonymous Paul E. Salamanca University of Kentucky College of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, and the First Amendment Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Paul E. Salamanca, The Role of Religion in Public Life and Official Pressure to Participate in Alcoholics Anonymous, 65 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1093 (1997). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Faculty Publications at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Faculty Scholarly Articles by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Role of Religion in Public Life and Official essurPr e to Participate in Alcoholics Anonymous Notes/Citation Information University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Summer 1997), pp. 1093-1168 This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/412 THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE AND OFFICIAL PRESSURE TO PARTICIPATE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Paul E. Salamanca* [F]or an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Dont put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "dont scrunch up like that, Huckleberry-set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry-why don't you try to behave?" Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. -
Constitutionalizing Secularism, Alternative
This article is published in a peer‐reviewed section of the Utrecht Law Review Constitutionalizing secularism, alternative secularisms or liberal-democratic constitutionalism? A critical reading of some Turkish, ECtHR and Indian Supreme Court cases on ‘secularism’ Veit Bader* 1. Introduction Recently, the heated debates on secularism in social sciences, politics and, increasingly, in political theory and political philosophy have also infected legal theory, constitutional law and comparative constitutionalism. Generally speaking, it may indeed be ‘too late to ban the word “secular”’ or to remove ‘secularism’ from our cultural vocabulary. The argument, however, that ‘too many controversies have already been stated in these terms’1 seems unconvincing to me. For the purposes of normative theory generally, and particularly for those of constitutional law and jurisprudence, the focus of this article, I have proposed to replace all normative concepts of ‘secularism’ by ‘priority for liberal-democracy’2 because I am convinced that we are better able to economize our moral disagreements or to resolve the substantive constitutional, legal, jurisprudential and institutional issues and controversies by avoiding to restate them in terms of ‘secularism’ or ‘alternative secularisms’. With regard to the ‘constitutional status of secularism’ we can discern three distinct positions all sharing the argument that ‘secularism (...) in most liberal democracies (…) is not explicitly recognized in the constitutional text or jurisprudence’3 and that it has ‘no clear standing * Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), email: [email protected] Thanks for critical comments and suggestions to Christian Moe, Ahmet Akgündüs, Yolande Jansen, Bas Schotel, Gunes Tezcur, Asli Bali, Werner Menski, an anonymous reviewer and the participants of conferences in New Delhi, Utrecht, and Istanbul where I presented earlier versions of this article. -
Religion in the Public Sphere
Religion in the Public Sphere Ars Disputandi Supplement Series Volume 5 edited by MAARTEN WISSE MARCEL SAROT MICHAEL SCOTT NIEK BRUNSVELD Ars Disputandi [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org] (2011) Religion in the Public Sphere Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion edited by NIEK BRUNSVELD & ROGER TRIGG Utrecht University & University of Oxford Utrecht: Ars Disputandi, 2011 Copyright © 2011 by Ars Disputandi, version: September 14, 2011 Published by Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, [http://www.arsdisputandi.org], hosted by Igitur publishing, Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands [http://www.uu.nl/university/library/nl/igitur/]. Typeset in Constantia 9/12pt. ISBN: 978-90-6701-000-9 ISSN: 1566–5399 NUR: 705 Reproduction of this (or parts of this) publication is permitted for non-commercial use, provided that appropriate reference is made to the author and the origin of the material. Commercial reproduction of (parts of) it is only permitted after prior permission by the publisher. Contents Introduction 1 ROGER TRIGG 1 Does Forgiveness Violate Justice? 9 NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF Section I: Religion and Law 2 Religion and the Legal Sphere 33 MICHAEL MOXTER 3 Religion and Law: Response to Michael Moxter 57 STEPHEN R.L. CLARK Section II: Blasphemy and Offence 4 On Blasphemy: An Analysis 75 HENK VROOM 5 Blasphemy, Offence, and Hate Speech: Response to Henk Vroom 95 ODDBJØRN LEIRVIK Section III: Religious Freedom 6 Freedom of Religion 109 ROGER TRIGG 7 Freedom of Religion as the Foundation of Freedom and as the Basis of Human Rights: Response to Roger Trigg 125 ELISABETH GRÄB-SCHMIDT Section IV: Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Secular Society 8 Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Secular Society: Individual or Collective Rights? 147 ANNE SOFIE ROALD 9 After Multiculturalism: Response to Anne Sofie Roald 165 THEO W.A. -
Modernism and Christian Socialism in the Thought of Ottokã¡R Prohã¡Szka
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Volume 12 Issue 3 Article 6 6-1992 Modernism and Christian Socialism in the Thought of Ottokár Prohászka Leslie A. Muray Lansing Community College, Michigan Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Eastern European Studies Commons Recommended Citation Muray, Leslie A. (1992) "Modernism and Christian Socialism in the Thought of Ottokár Prohászka," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 12 : Iss. 3 , Article 6. Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol12/iss3/6 This Article, Exploration, or Report is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I ; MODERNISM AND CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM IN THE THOUGHT OF OTTOKAR PROHASZKA By Leslie A. Moray Dr. Leslie A. Muray (Episcopalian) is professor of religious studies at the Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Theological School in Claremont, California. Several of his previous articles were published in OPREE. Little known in the West is the life and work of the Hungarian Ottokar Prohaszka (1858- 1927), Roman Catholic Bishop of Szekesfehervar and a university professor who was immensely popular and influential in Hungary at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. He was the symbol of modernism, for which three of his works were condemned, and Christian Socialism in his native land. -
"Religion-Neutral" Jurisprudence: an Examination of Its Meaning and End
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal Volume 13 (2004-2005) Issue 3 Article 5 February 2005 "Religion-Neutral" Jurisprudence: An Examination of Its Meaning and End L. Scott Smith Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj Part of the Religion Law Commons Repository Citation L. Scott Smith, "Religion-Neutral" Jurisprudence: An Examination of Its Meaning and End, 13 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 841 (2005), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol13/iss3/5 Copyright c 2005 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj "RELIGION-NEUTRAL" JURISPRUDENCE: AN EXAMINATION OF ITS MEANINGS AND END L. Scott Smith* INTRODUCTION The United States Supreme Court has in recent years, more than ever before, rested its jurisprudence of religion largely upon the notion of neutrality. The free exercise of religion, the Court has asserted, does not guarantee a person the right, based upon religious observance, to violate a law that is religiously neutral and of general applicability.' The nonestablishment norm of the Constitution is accordingly * M.Div., Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Columbia University; J.D., Texas Tech University. This Article is dedicated to Professors Kenneth Benson, Brick Johnstone, and Jill Raitt, with whom I enjoyed many inspiring conversations while I was a senior fellow in law at the University of Missouri's Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public, from January through May, 2004. ' Employment Div. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990). Michael W. McConnell correctly predicted in 1992 that, since Smith, with its emphasis upon neutrality, represented the Court's position on the Free Exercise Clause, "it is to be expected that the Court will soon reinterpret the Establishment Clause in a manner consistent with Smith." Michael W. -
Rethinking Religious Minorities' Political Power
Rethinking Religious Minorities’ Political Power Hillel Y. Levin* This Article challenges the assumption that small religious groups enjoy little political power. Based on this assumption, the dominant view is that courts are indispensable for protecting religious minority groups from oppression by the majority. But this assumption fails to account for the many and varied ways in which the majoritarian branches have chosen to protect and accommodate even unpopular religious minority groups, as well as the courts’ failures to do so. The Article offers a public choice analysis to account for the surprising majoritarian reality of religious accommodationism. Further, it explores the important implications of this reality for deeply contested legal doctrines, as well as the insights it offers for recent and looming high- profile cases pitting state law against religious liberty. * Copyright © 2015 Hillel Y. Levin. The Author is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He thanks Nelson Tebbe, Douglas Laycock, Ron Krotoszynski, James Oleske, Chip Lupu, Paul Horwitz, Michael Broyde, Nathan Chapman, Harlan Cohen, Dan Coenen, and Bo Rutledge for helping to refine — and challenge — the ideas explored in this article and their comments on earlier drafts. He is also grateful to Amelia Trotter, Andrew Mason, and Heidi Gholamhosseini for their excellent research assistance. 1617 1618 University of California, Davis [Vol. 48:1617 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE COUNTERMAJORITARIAN ASSUMPTION ............. 1619 I. THE MAJORITARIAN REALITY .................................................. 1627 A. Reframing the Discourse: A Tale of Two Eruvs ................ 1628 1. The Countermajoritarian Eruv: Tenafly, New Jersey ........................................................................ 1631 2. The Majoritarian Eruv: Memphis, Tennessee .......... 1635 3. -
Institutional Decolonization: Toward a Comprehensive Black Politics
NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.1 INSTITUTIONAL DECOLONIZATION: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE BLACK POLITICS A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW VOLUME 20.1 INSTITUTIONAL DECOLONIZATION: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE BLACK POLITICS A PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS National Political Science Review | ii THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW EDITORS Managing Editor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard University of California, Irvine Duchess Harris Macalester College Sharon D. Wright Austin The University of Florida Angela K. Lewis University of Alabama, Birmingham BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Brandy Thomas Wells Oklahoma State University EDITORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTS Lisa Beard Armand Demirchyan LaShonda Carter Amber Gordon Ashley Daniels Deshanda Edwards EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Melina Abdullah—California State University, Los Angeles Keisha Lindsey—University of Wisconsin Anthony Affigne—Providence College Clarence Lusane—American University Nikol Alexander-Floyd—Rutgers University Maruice Mangum—Alabama State University Russell Benjamin—Northeastern Illinois University Lorenzo Morris—Howard University Nadia Brown—Purdue University Richard T. Middleton IV—University of Missouri, Niambi Carter—Howard University St. Louis Cathy Cohen—University of Chicago Byron D’Andra Orey—Jackson State University Dewey Clayton—University of Louisville Marion Orr—Brown University Nyron Crawford—Temple University Dianne Pinderhughes—University of Notre Dame Heath Fogg Davis—Temple University Matt Platt—Morehouse College Pearl Ford Dowe—University of Arkansas H.L.T. Quan—Arizona State University Kamille Gentles Peart—Roger Williams University Boris Ricks—California State University, Northridge Daniel Gillion—University of Pennsylvania Christina Rivers—DePaul University Ricky Green—California State University, Sacramento Neil Roberts—Williams College Jean-Germain Gros—University of Missouri, St. -
Supreme Court Case Studies to the Teacher the Supreme Court Case Studies Booklet Contains 68 Reproducible Supreme Court Case Studies
Supreme Court Case Studies To the Teacher The Supreme Court Case Studies booklet contains 68 reproducible Supreme Court case studies. These cases include landmark decisions in American government that have helped and continue to shape this nation, as well as decisions dealing with current issues in American society. Every case includes background information, the constitutional issue under consideration, the Court’s decision, and where appropriate, dissenting opinions. Each two-page study requires students to analyze the case and apply critical thinking skills. An answer key is provided in the back of the booklet. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce the material contained herein on the condition that such material be reproduced only for classroom use; be provided to students, teachers, and families, without charge; and be used solely in conjunction with Glencoe Social Studies products. Any other reproduction, for use or sale, is prohibited without written permission from the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, Ohio 43240 ISBN 0-07-830788-0 Printed in the United States of America 123456789100470706050403 Table of Contents To the Teacher ...................................................................................................................................................... ii Supreme Court Case Studies Case Study 1: Marbury v. Madison, 1803 ........................................................................................................... -
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title A Crenelated Wall: The Rise and Fall of Southern Baptist Institutions for the Separation of Church and State, 1936-1979 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94z3m5b3 Author Ruckle, John Timothy Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California A Crenelated Wall: The Rise and Fall of Southern Baptist Institutions for the Separation of Church and State, 1936-1979 By John Timothy Ruckle Jr. A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor David A. Hollinger, Chair Professor Richard Cándida Smith Professor Richard E. Hutson Spring 2015 © 2015 by John Timothy Ruckle Jr. All rights reserved. Abstract A Crenelated Wall: The Rise and Fall of Southern Baptist Institutions for the Separation of Church and State, 1936-1979 by John Timothy Ruckle Jr. Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Berkeley Professor David A. Hollinger, Chair This dissertation centers on the origins and projects of the Baptist Joint Committee (BJC), founded and funded in 1936 by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and the Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (POAU), founded in 1948 as the brainchild of Southern Baptist elites. I argue these organizations were primarily concerned with opposing American Catholic projects, especially those which sought public monies for parochial schools. Ironically, the structures and organizations which greatly aided this effort to expand religious tolerance and liberty in this period had their origins in concerns about the Catholic Church and American Catholicism held by many Baptists. -
Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court of the United States
Fordham Law Review Volume 17 Issue 2 Article 1 1948 Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court of the United States Godfrey P. Schmidt Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Godfrey P. Schmidt, Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court of the United States, 17 Fordham L. Rev. 173 (1948). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol17/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law Review by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FORDHAM LAW REVIEW VOLUME XVII NOVEMBER, 1948 NUMBER 2 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES GODFREY P. SCHMIDTt ON JUNE 28, 1787 the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia had listened to a rather boring, two-day harangue by Luther Martin, the delegate from Maryland. He had been speaking in favor of an equal vote for each state as an essential to the federal idea. He made long quotations from Locke, Vattel, Somers, Priestley and Samuel Rutherford, all of them contemporary intellectual leaders, to support his particular theory of emphasized states' rights. According to James Madison, Martin spoke "with much diffuseness and considerable vehemence"; and ac- cording to Oliver Elsworth, he spoke with "eternal volubility." When at last Luther Martin had finished his plea to the Convention, others joined in the discussion.