Some 2,200 guests filled the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday morning for the inaugural prayer service, a tradition as old as the country itself.The service is meant to provide a spiritual boost to the newly sworn-in president. Prominent national clergy — from the Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh traditions — will offer prayers to…
Modern nation states utilize political models that were unanticipated in any of our premodern scriptures. It is anachronistic to ask whether “Islam” endorses constitutionalism or democracy. Islam as such does not proscribe any one particular system of government. (Of course “Islam” doesn’t do anything, Muslims do. We human beings are the agents of our religious…
June 18 Four German academic institutions joined forces and established a post-graduate programme, called “Theology as a science: historical and systemic analysis of the formation processes of self-reflection in faith traditions”. The institutions involved are the Universities of Frankfurt and Mainz, the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt and the College…
President Obama released a statement Monday marking Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. The president also noted that he will again host a traditional iftar, a breaking of the fast that occurs after sunset. “As Ramadan begins, Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around…
8 October 2010 The Department for Communities and Local Government has published a report dealing with the training of imams in the UK. As shown throughout the report, the Muslim Faith Leadership Training Review involved a wide range of activities and a wide range of individuals and institutions. Also, it necessarily involved attention to many…
