It’s easy to abstractly defend church members’ right to protest at funerals in class but much more painful to watch them actually do so outside your window
Religion and Democracy articles on Democracy Chronicles
These articles on Religion and Democracy concern the relationship with the world's many organized collections of beliefs, cultural systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to the supernatural and spirituality. This section also includes our articles about how the relationship between secularism and atheism with democracy. Also check out our section on World Democracy.
Loneliness, Capitalism and the Self
Capitalism and the Self: As an idealist, I believe that both state and federal governments must be built from the bottom-up not from top-down implementing consensus decision-making.
Fighting for the LGBT Community in the Philippines
Extreme stigma experienced by those who are openly gay drive many in the Philippines to maintain double life by engaging in covert behavior.
How Democratic India’s Caste System Really Works
This essay argues that the premise of Brahmanical superiority is not sufficient to explain observations of the caste system in the world’s biggest democracy, India.
Democracy and the Burden of Syrian Liberation
Syrian Democracy: We can never ask whether all the death and destruction is worth it; sacrifices come easier than democracy in the Middle East.
Papal Election Reflects Changing Demographics Of Catholic Church
Will Pope Benedict XVI’s successor be the first non-European elected to title in Papal election?
Human Rights Activist for Muslims Has Hope for Obama
Activist for Muslims Has Hope for Obama Uses State of the Union Address as opportunity to focus country on Muslim issues. Obama could use State of the Union to reach undecided voter
When Nations Emulate Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi
Radical Egalitarianism in Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi and the richest 1% of Americans owning 40% of the nations wealth
India’s Intolerance for Free Speech on Facebook
India versus Facebook: More troubling is that even if the arrest is found wrongful, there is now a chilling effect on free speech in India
Somalia: A Nation That Refused Being Swallowed By Jihadists
When crisis and disaster struck Somalia, radicals mastered exploitation of the people’s hopelessness.These vacuums cultivate Somalian destructive forces