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Secularism: Its content and context
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Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
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Justice and reconciliation
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Janus-faced justice
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Reconciliation in the real world
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer a way of thinking about justice that poses an...
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Secularism: Its content and context
The following is excerpted from a longer SSRC Working Paper by Akeel Bilgrami, available for download here (PDF).—ed. 1. I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
I am very grateful to the many commentators on my essay “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” for their instructive and challenging responses and I am glad of this chance, in what follows, to try and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Justice and reconciliation
Recent history is full of episodes of egregious, widespread and often systematic wrongdoing: genocide, torture, and mass killing. Cambodia, South Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and Guatemala...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Janus-faced justice
I read Daniel Philpott’s new book, Just and Unjust Peace, around the same time that I finished a novel by Christopher Beha, entitled What Happened to Sophie Wilder? In Beha’s novel, the titular Sophie...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reconciliation in the real world
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer a way of thinking about justice that poses an...
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