Word: secularizing
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...holy guests”), unholy houseguests stir up holiday trouble—only in this film, the celebration is of the biblical Exodus rather than a settler/American-Indian dinner. “Ushpizin” is the first film made with collaboration between the ultra-Orthodox community and secular filmmakers and is aimed squarely at general audiences as an comedy anyone can enjoy. Set in modern-day Jerusalem, it follows the lives of poor, kindly Moshe Bellanga (Shuli Rand—also the movie’s screenwriter) and his wife Malli (Rand’s real-life wife, Michal...
...different political leanings: Deputy President Ghazi al-Yawar, whose base is among tribal leaders; Deputy Prime Minister Abd Mutlaq al-Juburi, a former Baathist general under Saddam; Ala Makki, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Iraqi Islamic party, the largest Sunni political group; Dr. Hatem al-Mukhlis, a secular New York-based doctor and ally of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; and Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi, a secularist tribal leader and expert on petroleum...
...have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. Even the fight over intelligent design, to me, is a harbinger of a trend, which is that the religious world is increasingly willing to put its issues on the table and discuss them in the context of the secular world. Let's argue about evolution vs. creation, using the framework that secular science has given...
...rest of society. I just went to an interesting evangelical conference, and throughout, rock bands were playing. The rock-'n'-roll culture within the evangelical world is indistinguishable in terms of the sound of the music from the rock culture that came out of a very different, irreligious secular tradition, except that the words are about Jesus--love and all that. They're not resisting outside culture, they're embracing it and kind of making it their own. I think intelligent design and Christian rock are similar. It's about taking up form from the outside and trying to Christianize...
...point, Ibrahim said last month’s Iraqi constitution failed to create appropriate boundaries between religion and the state. He said that many Muslims interpret “secular” as “anti-religious,” leading them to resist the Western emphasis on secular government. Ibrahim stressed that terrorism “must be condemned universally,” saying that extremist interpretations of Islam demonstrate “a failure to comprehend the religion, an obsolete understanding, a truncated view.” Many Malaysian students attended the talk and asked Ibrahim questions...