Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Nilüfer GöleNilüfer Göle is a Turkish writer and academic. She is the author of The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling and is currently professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Recent articlesIdols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression Writers and thinkers, including Tariq Ramadan, Aayan Hirsi Ali and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, debate religion and freedom of expression in the third audio feature from the PEN World Voices literary festival. |
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