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Revolutionary Dreams, Repressive Realities

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

Women stand at the forefront, driving this nation-wide revolt because there exists the deepest contradiction between their massive participation in social affairs and the patriarchal laws and denigrating regulations that seek to govern their bodies and appearances.

Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022August 17, 2022

It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.

Beyond the West: Nationalism, Religious Literacy, and the War in Ukraine

John Rees
June 14, 2022June 14, 2022

Western interpretations on the war in Ukraine commonly ignore the importance of both nationalism and religion, even though such elements…

Israeli Apartheid and Its Apologists

Raz Segal
March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

The weaponization of the discourse of antisemitism is a crude and cruel distortion: abusing the historical struggle of a vulnerable people, Jews, under attack by powerful states to blur the attack of a state, Israel, against a vulnerable people, Palestinians.

Eichmann Is Still in Jerusalem

Atalia Omer
June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

It is as if Eichmann’s own tactics and exclusionary and eliminative ideology are alive and well, only now being used against Palestinians.

The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza

Atalia Omer
May 14, 2021August 25, 2022

The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.

Uyghur Religious Heritage under China’s “Anti-Religious Extremism” Campaigns

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China

Rachel Harris
May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

China argues that government management of Uyghur culture is necessary to protect it from religious extremism. In fact the biggest threats to Uyghur heritage and culture are the policies of the Chinese government itself.

Contending Populisms: Pope Francis’s Response to the Politics of Division

Angus Ritchie
May 5, 2021

Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.

Notes on the Coup in Myanmar: Karmic Kingship, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty

Ingrid Jordt
April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Aung San Suu Kyi has been negotiating between two divergent models for political legitimacy and sovereignty. On the one hand are western principles of human rights and democracy, on the other is karmic kingship.

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