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“Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State Law” By Davide Dimodugno

Oct 10, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsDimodugno, Davide, Media & Culture, October 2023

Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State LawDavide Dimodugno Excerpted and translated from Gli edifici di culto come beni culturali in Italia. Nuovi scenari per la gestione e il riuso delle chiese cattoliche tra diritto canonico e diritto statale…

“‘60s Dreaming: Social Uplift Aims and Contradictions” by R. Drew Smith

Oct 5, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysHuman Rights, October 2023, Smith, R. Drew

“Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.” Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd on Unsplash. O n August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial a speech that 60 years later possesses enduring significance for the struggle to achieve equal social opportunity as delineated within America’s founding principles. In the…

“AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue – Part III” by Michael J. Broyde

Oct 3, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesEthics & Morality, Michael J. Broyde, October 2023

“Artificial Intelligence” from Pixabay (License) This essay is the third installment of a three-part series by the author on Jewish law and AI. This third and final installment is a compilation of general resources on law and AI at the time of this writing in June 2023. Read the first and second installments in this…

“AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue – Part II” by Michael J. Broyde

Oct 3, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCanopy Forum, Ethics and Morality, Michael J. Broyde, October 2023

“Artificial Intelligence” from Pixabay (License) This essay is the second installment of a three-part series by the author on this topic. Read the first and third installments in this series. I suspect that this field of AI reasoning is a mix between the ability of the engine to process and the available data it has…

“AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue – Part I” by Michael J. Broyde

Oct 3, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCanopy Forum, Ethics and Morality, Michael J. Broyde, October 2023

“Artificial Intelligence” from Pixabay (License) This essay is the first installment of a three-part series by the author on this topic. Read the second and third installments in this series. In a forthcoming article, “May a Kohen in a Same Sex Relationship Duchen,” I analyze whether a man in a same-sex relationship may engage in…

“An Illustrative Approach to Religious Freedom Violations in Nigeria” by Dennis P. Petri

Sep 28, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysPetri, Dennis P., Religious Freedom, September 2023

Lagos, Nigeria by Nupo Deyon Daniel on Unsplash. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse federation of 36 autonomous states and the Federal Capital Territory. The political landscape is partly dominated by the ruling All Progressives Congress party (APC), which controls the executive arm of government and holds majority seats at both the Senate and…

“Religion and Identity in an Age of Individualization” by Ted A. Smith

Sep 26, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsEthics & Morality, September 2023, Smith, Ted A.

Religion and Identity in an Age of IndividualizationTed A. Smith Excerpted from The End of Theological Education by Ted A. Smith (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Individualized Religion Social theorists have sometimes described modernity as relegating religion to the private sphere. A range of legal and cultural disestablishments did unhook religion…

“POWR Talk: What does Islam say about democracy?” by Courtney Freer

Sep 21, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesFreer, Courtney, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2023

Picture of The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria by James Gordon (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our “Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Perspectives” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Since the 9.11 attacks and subsequent Global War on Terror, one of the major fields of study related to…

“Three Contemporary Catholic Approaches to Democracy” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Sep 19, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCavedon, Matthew P., Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2023

Image: Church Altar Pews (Pixabay) This article is part of our “Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Perspectives” series. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. T here is no single Catholic political philosophy. Some intellectuals, like twentieth-century philosopher Heinrich Rommen, have even suggested that “Catholic political philosophy” is a contradiction in terms, given the…

“Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Christian and Islamic Perspectives” by Whittney Barth

Sep 15, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesBarth, Whittney, Religious Freedom, September 2023

Picture of the Chicago Skyline from Grant Park in by James Conkis (CC BY-SA 4.0). This essay is an introduction to our thematic series, “Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Christian and Islamic Perspectives.” How do religious communities approach democracy? What religious beliefs, practices, and histories inform those views? And what does democracy look like when viewed through…

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