Popular religions and multiple modernities

Popular Matchings with Multiple Partners

Our input is a bipartite graph G = (R ∪ H,E) where each vertex in R ∪ H has a preference list strictly ranking its neighbors. The vertices in R (similarly, in H) are called residents (resp., hospitals): each resident seeks to be matched to a hospital while each hospital h seeks cap(h) ≥ 1 many residents to be matched to it. The Gale-Shapley algorithm computes a stable matching in G in linear ti...

Religions / Adyān

s of the articles in Arabic Sources of Tolerance and Intolerance in Islam by Ibrahim Kalin Healing Interreligious Relationships by Leo Lefebure Disagreeing to Agree: A Christian Response to A Common Word by James Cutsinger Religious Diversity and Harmonious Living: The Indian Story and Challenge by Michael Amaladoss Jews and Muslims: Why They Have More in Common than They Realize by Robert Eise...

Islam and other Religions

Any student of comparative religion will notice - and seek to identify as well - the points of similarity and difference between various religions. One might even claim that the discipline of “influence studies” has its roots in these discussions of comparison and contrast. However, these discussions persistently fail to address the nuances of particular faiths. Here, I intend to shed some ligh...

Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...

Alternative Modernities for Colonial Korea