Mosque or Modernity?

The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

Turkey is demonstrating that Islam and modernity are compatible.

But this opening to modernity extends beyond economics and finance.

Old and new, traditions and modernity, are locked in a struggle.

Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

Aron wrote cool, sleek prose about the most heated geopolitical conflicts, while Sartre could turn any triviality into an existential crisis.

Asia is rising because Asian countries are increasingly opening their doors to modernity.

They, too, want moderation and modernity, if perhaps not full secularization, to prevail.

The post modern realities of our grave present make a mockery of modernity.

They successfully reconciled Islamic politics with the Turkish lifestyle and modernity in general.

Today, the emergence of Chinese style and Indian style modernity is mentally destabilizing Japan.

This time, however, it is modernity, not exoticism, that is the source of fascination.

It has replaced Israel s early pioneering ethos with the temptations of modernity, liberalism, and normalcy.

In the medium term, modernity is indivisible you can have all of it or none.

This negation is connected with the complex and paradoxical nature of the concept of modernity.

It holds elections, but more as a nod to modernity than to represent the people s will.

Can Israel remain an oasis of stability, security, modernity, and economic growth in such a volatile environment?

Meeting this imperative entails both an enormous technological challenge and an opportunity to redefine the meaning of modernity.

I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold buttoned blazers.

After all, Fritz Stern wrote his book to warn of the dangers posed by a romantic abhorrence of modernity.

Berman, Marshall (1982) All That Is Solid Melts Into Air The Experience of Modernity (ISBN 0 14 010962 5).

Increased migration is, indeed, a daily fact in our centrifugal and global modernity, but it isn t only a negative one.

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It could be a bridge between the West and the East, between Islam and modernity, and between Israel and the Arabs.

SINGAPORE The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church.

It is precisely this modern irrationality a product of modernity itself that the terrorist attack launched by the Tsarnaev brothers reflected.

An emphasis on the concept of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment, often distinguishes sociological discourse from that of classical political philosophy.

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Notions of what is right and wrong often collapse under the irreconcilable tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the community.

For them, the old world of traditional ties and customs is gone, but the new world of modernity remains out of reach.

Nationalism implied a specific image of society and reality in general a consciousness that was to become the cultural framework of modernity.

Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

It is a demonstration of modernity and equality that even the secretive Chinese and North Korean leadership appear to have learned of late.

Exciting new buildings, designed by the world s most famous architects, will make Beijing and Shanghai look like models of twenty first century modernity.

Those people are not even aware of the existence of the United Nations, but they are fully entitled to the benefits of modernity.

Indonesia and Turkey  to name just two are both striking examples of how countries with predominantly Muslim populations can embrace democracy and modernity.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.

Will Pakistan be dragged along the path of Islamic extremism and emergency rule, or finally achieve modernity as a secular nation under civilian leadership?

Asians, for their part, viewed Europe as either a model of modernity, as in Meiji Japan, or a barometer of decay, as in China.

The 2,000 year old city of Beijing should be transported into hyper modernity, whereas his father s 1936 Berlin design was, in his words, simply megalomania.