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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Multiple Paths to Modernity

RESET DOC

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September 2012

Each cultural and denominational tradition, including Islam and other religions, is susceptible to lead to an internal elaboration of its own democratic and pluralist approach to modernity. Four leading scholars explain how and why this happens.

Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam

Fred Dallmayr

Turkey, Secularism and the EU. A View from Damascus

Sadik J. Al-Azm

Religion, Unity and Diversity

Ibrahim Kalin

Democracy and Islam

Irfan Ahmad