Word: christiane
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...writing and literature; and Richard Gonzalez, an ALM student in environmental management, are all running for president of the organization, which was formed in 2001. “The student association is really new and the evolution of a heavily contested election is really new,” said Christian Hassold, the outgoing chair of the Harvard Extension Business Society and a former events coordinator and treasurer with HESA. De La Rosa compared the Extension School’s social atmosphere to a “cellular” structure. “Everyone knows five to ten people...
...creeping Islamization of Europe.” In right-wing magazines like the National Review, theological conservatives (theocons) foretell the end of European civilization due to the continentals’ obstinate refusal to breed. “Demography is destiny,” they chant, and dwindling Christian Europe is about to be engulfed by Mohammedans...
More fundamentally, this black-and-white religious categorization flattens the complexity of individuals’ identities and juxtaposes imaginary Christian unity with a similarly invented monolithic Islamic world. In reality, Europe’s Muslims, like its Christians, are incredibly diverse. Besides their faith, Senegalese, Moroccans, and Iranians have little in common, and even their shared religious beliefs manifest themselves in wildly different practices, from Sufism to Wahhabism...
Implicitly or explicitly, the demographic “problem” depends on a link between contemporary Europe’s virtues and its Christian demography. The very idea of pan-European values is questionable, but assuming that they exist—perhaps as embodied by a commitment to political, social and economic freedom achieved through liberal democracy and capitalism—it’s unclear how such “European values” will be endangered by an Islamic minority. In a mostly non-religious Europe, the only link between the continent’s values...
...Lewis, who is currently an assistant professor of Christian studies, will return to Brown, his alma mater, to take a position in the department of religious studies. He said one of his reasons for going to Brown was that religious studies is an actual department there, whereas at Harvard the study of religion is administered by a committee...