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...Archbishop merely suggested the coexistence of another ethical set of laws in the public sphere. Although there is an established national church in the U.K., the tangible effect of religion on contemporary culture has faded, mirroring neighbors such as France. And indeed, Shariah is intensely rooted in the everyday existence of Muslims, so to suggest that there may be similarities between British law and Islamic religious mores seems farfetched at first. However, there is nothing abhorrent about showing some progressive thought on the presence other religions in a country’s national makeup. As the leader of this national...
James J. Gross, one of the authors of the study and a professor at Stanford, said that he and his fellow authors hope to “enlarge the sphere in which our behavior can be controlled...
Nowhere is the tension between work and faith more pronounced than in France. There, laïcité, or secularism, dictates that religion should be confined to the private sphere. Though the 1978 Islamic Revolution in Iran shattered the long-cherished view that modernization inevitably pushes people away from faith and toward secularism, French Muslim professionals say they often face the assumption from their colleagues that career success will have this effect. "If you're doing well, they assume you're one of them, and so you're secular," says Parisian Muslim Zoubeir Ben Terdeyet, a consultant with an international...
...told me, ‘in science you can’t give great salaries, you can’t live the high life, but what you can have is complete creative freedom.’ And that’s something he held to with everyone in his sphere. He was just pure passion, pure curiosity. He loved to share and loved to teach.” Ingber is the Judah Folkman professor of vascular biology in the Department of Pathology at HMS. Folkman’s wife, Paula, said in an interview with The Boston Globe that...
...Should fashion designers be excluded from the sphere of art and culture? Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaïa, Jean-Paul Gaultier and so many others are worldwide stars. Our luxury industries, as well as our Michelin-starred chefs, are perceived abroad as evidence of the vitality of French "culture...