‘Charlie Hebdo’ Redux: Islam and Free Speech
Are there ‘natural’ limits to freedom? This essay argues that the dignity on which freedom is based must be recognized as underpinning not only traditional but also secular conceptions of freedom.
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The Gravity of Rubble
The Iranian People and their ‘Great Satans’
Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition
Deconstructing Deconstruction
“Who will Rule, God or Man?” - Politics and the Sacred
Esoteric Dimensions of Deep Ecology
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Mythos and Logos: Faith in the Modern World
Mythos (myth, symbol and ritual) and Logos (science and reason) are complementary. Karen Armstrong’s essay explains how modernity’s conflation and imbalance of these approaches has been detrimental to faith and religion.
From Homer to the Qur’an: Hermeneutical Strategies in the Hellenic and Islamic Traditions
The essay explores analogies between interpretation of the Homeric poems in the ancient Hellenic philosophical ‘paideia’ and that of the Qur’an in the Islamic tradition.
Martin Lings, The Poet-Sufi
What Thirst Is For
Preliminary Remarks on Reclaiming the Meaning of ‘Religion’
