Farah Adeed

Politics As Worship - Reading Religion Why do leading Islamist movements like the Egyptian Muslim Brothers embrace electoral politics while insisting that their main goal is “working for God...

My review of Sumita Pahwa’s interesting book Politics as Worship:

“Politics as Worship is a significant and creative contribution to the study of religion in politics.”

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"Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense."
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No one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark…!

Prof, no one is reading you Many of the world's most talented thinkers may be university professors, but sadly most of them are not shaping today's public debates or influencing policies. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I read this piece months ago."If a paper is cited, this does not imply it has actually been read...only 20 per cent of papers cited have actually been read.We estimate that an average paper in a peer-reviewed journal is read completely by no more than 10 people."
www.straitstimes.com/opinion/prof...