This is a critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain. The book combines analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The contributors provide insights & information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic & cultural dimensions.
182 MUSLIMS! Shehla Khan On Valentine's Day 1989 Imam Khomeini issued
fatwa against Salman Rushdie, author of the Satanic Verses. Khomeini's
invocation of the friend/enemy polarity (Schmitt, 1996) signified the radical
politicisation of the conflict surrounding the Satanic Verses and its imbrication
within the Islamic revolution's discursive articulation of Muslim subjectivity. One of
the constitutive elements of this discursive field inhered in the rejection of
gharbzadegi ( Al Ahmad, ...
This seminal work is the second volume of a widely praised study of the concept of woman in the history of Western philosophy. Sister Prudence Allen explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Touching on the thought of every philosopher who considered sex or gender identity between A.D. 1250 and 1500, The Concept of Woman provides the analytical categories necessary for situating contemporary discussion of women in relation to men. Adding to the accessibility of this fine discussion are informative illustrations, helpful summary charts, and extracts of original source material (some not previously available in English). Encyclopedic in coverage yet clearly organized and well written, The Concept of Woman will be an invaluable resource for readers interested in a wide range of disciplines.
Very soon they were joined by many newly founded mendicant religious
communities, such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians who,
unlike the secular clergy who remained primarily in one location, formed
networks of houses of study throughout Europe in a move to evangelize and fight
different forms of heresy, apostasy, or the advance of other religions such as Islam. The mendicant friars formed an elite group of men who studied at
university centers up to fifteen ...
Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam recounts Friend s remarkable journey and relates hundreds of encounters and conversations with people he met along the way. Commingling a deep respect for Islam and his faith in the potential of women to change their worlds, Friend presents an open, exploratory outsider s perspective on women in five very different Islamic cultures timely fare for all who wish to broaden their world horizons.
His successor, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, had the legal system impose a
death sentence on him, and let it be known that he would entertain a plea for
clemency only from Bhutto himself or his immediate family. Benazir recalled that
her father forbade it. They interred him in Garhi Kudha Bakhsh, the burial place of
Bhuttos for generations. Her father had taken her there before she left for Harvard
in 1969, saying, “Whatever happens to you, you will ultimately return here . . .
your ...
Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality
In recent years the theological writings of Wolfhart Pannenberg have exerted considerable influence. However, Pannenberg's work has also been criticized for not taking seriously the postmodern challenge to traditional conceptions of rationality and truth. This volume by F. LeRon Shults argues that the popular "foundationalist" reading of Pannenberg is a misinterpretation of his methodology and shows that, in fact, the structural dynamics of Pannenberg's approach offer significant resources for the postfoundationalist task of theology in our postmodern culture. Shults begins by laying out the first comprehensive summary and interpretation of the emerging postfoundationalist model of theological rationality. He then revisits Pannenberg's theological method and finds the German theologian to be a surprising ally in the quest to reconstruct a theological rationality along postfoundationalist lines. In the course of his discussion, Shults challenges views that see the future, reason, or history as the central concept of Pannenberg's thought and offers instead a new interpretation of Pannenberg's basic theological principle as understanding and explaining all things sub ratione Dei (under the aspect of the relation to God)-an interpretation endorsed by Pannenberg himself in the book's foreword. Shults also focuses on Pannenberg's unique way of linking philosophical and systematic theology and demonstrates how the underlying reciprocity of this method can carry over into the postfoundational concern to link hermeneutics and epistemology in the postmodern context.
Ultimately, this provides no means of thematizing, and even less of resolving, the
problem of the role of the theologian's subjective religious commitment in the
construction of his or her theories.71 The main problem he sees with
appropriating ...
