Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?
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In Aceh, contemporary narratives have strengthened insider/outsider identities, relegating native ethnic Chinese citizens to “outsiders” and limiting their ability to publicly practice their culture.
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Aisha, the wife of the prophet, protected and physically made space for transgender persons to pray behind her. As such, LGBT groups are assured protection.
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Modernity is embraced for its scientific and technological wonders, but is also associated with moral decline especially with regard to family and sexual ethics.
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This is a conflict of authority in a postcolonial state, involving state, traditional, and religious leadership, and as such evokes the transformations that African countries have undergone in the imperial and post imperial age.
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Renewal takes place when two sources of knowledge—of the world and of scripture—collide.
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Religious identity is often a deep and fundamental concern for Europeans, yet some Indonesian intellectuals suggest religious affiliation is as much an administrative matter as one of deep personal conviction.
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CM Research Associate Kyle Lambelet sat down with ACI Africa working group leader Emmanuel Katongole to talk about his CM and Luce funded research project “Who Are My People?”: Christianity, Violence and Belonging in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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While some Indonesian politicians and religious leaders jockey for Saudi praise, others bemoan Saudi Arabia as a kingdom which has gone astray from Islam’s true religious principles, whose exported Wahhabi theology threatens Indonesian national integrity, and whose wealthy citizens have been accused of torturing their Indonesian housemaids.
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Familiar European systems of classification (involving ‘exclusivism’, ‘inclusivism’ and ‘pluralism’ for example) fail to do justice to the descriptions of inter-religious engagement given by Indonesian colleagues.
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