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		<title>Suspending the Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear readers, Due to new intellectual endeavors, I am suspending my occasional contemplations here on all things religious and political.  I have appreciated your comments over the last few years and hope some of the pieces have been interesting. I will continue to post material on this page as I write for other venues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=710&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooperating modernities in Tunisia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This month's post is being hosted by the Contending Modernities blog, a new project at the University of Notre Dame exploring modernity from Catholic, Muslim and Secular perspectives] In April, Columbia political scientist Alfred Stepan came out with an article in the Journal of Democracy on “Tunisia’s Transition and the Twin Tolerations.” If the article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=692&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elections in Algeria: Everybody Loses Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 09:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Algerians voted for a new parliament last Thursday in the country’s first national elections since the beginning of the Arab Spring. The results of the vote are underwhelming and leave little hope that the aching democratic aspirations of Algeria will be met anytime soon. This did not have to be the case. Some months ago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=667&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Enemies in Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague and mentor from the University of Notre Dame, Dan Philpott, has just come out with a beautiful, short, fresh film entitled Uganda: The Challenge of Forgiveness and produced by the Fetzer Institute in Michigan. The film features a series of gracious interviews with community and religious leaders in Northern Uganda and the acts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=662&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Rick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time now, I had been waiting for a major Catholic politician to publically denounce John F. Kennedy’s 1960 address on religion and politics in America. That it was Santorum who did so, from the gut, invoking bile, was a bit unfortunate and made it that much easier for liberals and conservatives alike to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=650&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Italian Perspectives on American Political Catholicism</title>
		<link>http://michaeldriessen.com/2012/03/29/santorum-and-catholic-italian-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A certain profile of Public Catholicism has been on full show in America this past month. The show, so far, has included the strong opposition of the US Bishops to the White House’s decisions on contraceptives, Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign and, to some extent, the deliberations among Catholics of the Supreme Court over Obama’s health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=605&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elections and Algerian Islamisms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of last year, when protests built some steam in Algeria, its public face was young, democratic and mostly secular. But Islamists understood that the times were changing as well. Bouguerra Soltani, captain of the MSP-HAMAS, an Islamist party with Muslim Brotherhood connections and a member of the ruling coalition in Algeria for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=597&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Vanier, World Peace and the Politics of Gentleness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new website up dedicated to the life and work of Jean Vanier, founder of the international community of L’Arche, a global federation of homes and workspaces where adults with intellectual disabilities and assistants try to live in prayerful and mundane communion with one another. They are messy, beautiful communities where authenticity, tenderness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=538&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E se i Fratelli fossero la Dc del Cairo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelddriessen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Excerpt from an interview by Lorenzo Biondi published with Europa, an Italian daily newspaper, on the November 28th, 2011 elections in Egypt. To read the whole interview online, click here] Non c’è il rischio che l’affermazione elettorale degli islamisti li spinga verso il radicalismo? Di certo la vittoria li inorgoglirà. Ma l’elettorato egiziano oggi è [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=530&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ennahda Effect?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This month's post is being hosted by the Contending Modernities blog, a new project at the University of Notre Dame exploring modernity from Catholic, Muslim and Secular perspectives] Tunisia’s Islamist-oriented political party, Ennahda, appears to have won slightly more than 40% of the popular vote in constitutional assembly elections on October 30th, the first elections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldriessen.com&#038;blog=7564216&#038;post=516&#038;subd=michaelddriessen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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