http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog world media review website Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/#comments Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:46:20 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/ From the standpoint of postmodernist thinkers like Jean-François Lyotard, western cultures universalize assumptions about what is “human” and “rational,” as if these concepts are not culturally and historically specific, the malleable products of power and ideology. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/#comments Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:33:15 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/ The formal laws constituting freedom of expression in democratic societies are only the tip of the iceberg of unwritten agreements between citizens about what they can express publicly in one context or another, says Göran Rosenberg.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/feed/ 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:36:15 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/ What do we do about terrorist incitement on the internet? I have noted on several occasions that the main enemies of democracy and pluralistic Islam -- al-Qaida, the ultra-Wahhabi clerics of Saudi Arabia, and jihadists in Pakistan -- seem to have far surpassed the antiterror forces in use of this versatile and effective form of media.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:47:37 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/ The turn of the millennium may not have brought on the Apocalypse, or a Y2K global computer crash. But the first five years of the 21st century have witnessed what, to many of us, seems equivalent: an apparently sudden preponderance of evangelical Christianity in startling places.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/02/methodism-empire-of-the-spirit/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:24:10 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ In the last several decades, modernity--the period initiated by the Enlightenment--has come under increasing criticism]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:20:42 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-v-s-naipaul-at-home/ A prophet of our world-historical moment, in his more than 25 works of fiction and nonfiction, Naipaul has examined the clash between belief and unbelief, the unraveling of the British Empire, the migrations of peoples.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/19/the-irascible-prophet-naipaul-at-home/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:19:44 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/ While the First Crusade is overwhelmingly portrayed as a decidedly Catholic (i.e., Western) affair, the aims and objectives of its chief participants from the West must never obscure those of the great Byzantine Empire to the East. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:24:29 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/ What is it to possess a religious sensibility? What is it to be contrasted with? And why, despite professions of religiosity, is it so rare? ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/piety-as-a-form-of-self-knowledge/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:27:53 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/ When Søren Kierkegaard lay dying in Copenhagen 150 years ago, it would have been hard to predict the influence his work would later have. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/12/s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-a-biography/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/03/the-myth-of-moderate-islam/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/03/the-myth-of-moderate-islam/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:19:05 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/03/the-myth-of-moderate-islam/ By far the majority of Muslims today live their lives without recourse to violence, for the Koran is like a pick-and-mix selection. If you want peace, you can find peaceable verses. If you want war, you can find bellicose verses. You can find verses which permit only defensive jihad, or you can find verses to justify offensive jihad. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/03/the-myth-of-moderate-islam/feed/ 3