Word: secularization
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...doubtless imagine the trouble he gets into when he spies the beautiful, teenage Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon), a passionately religious virgin and thus rather more inclined to yield to the priest than to her secular swain. You can also perhaps imagine the outrage that is greeting the release of El Crimen del Padre Amaro...
...watching these actors recombine uniquely, with all of tonight's little gaffes and unexpected epiphanies, at this moment, for their art and your pleasure. At its best a play restores, for a few hours, the age of belief. It gives you the shiver of a sacred rite, in a secular cathedral, and what you experience is communion. Can't get that with a book, where it's just you and the words. Can't get it at the movies, where the performers have been caught in aspic, and the snowman is cryogenically preserved. Only theater traps and enfolds...
...Erdogan does not look like a man so dangerous as to have been accused of "inciting religious hatred." His comfortably furnished offices in Ankara look more like a banker's suite than a fundamentalist's den. Impressionist prints adorn the walls, along with a portrait of Turkey's fiercely secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There isn't a prayer bead in sight. "I am a Muslim," the beardless Erdogan, 48, dressed in a pressed blue suit and red tie, said in a recent interview with Time. "But I believe in a secularist state...
...poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third of the popular vote. With only one other grouping, the old-line Republican People's Party (CHP), making it into parliament, the AK will be the first party to rule...
...individual freedom in Islam. Although non-Muslim readers may be daunted by the quotations and counter-quotations from hadiths (the reported sayings of the Prophet) that fill so much of any Muslim theological discussion, the book provides a fascinating glimpse of how Islamic traditions are faring in a modern, secular society. The book reads like a series of e-mail exchanges, in which Babès and Oubrou put forward their own tightly-argued positions and then respond to each other's criticisms. One of the main strands of debate concerns the nature of the Shari'a - Islam's prescriptions...