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Global Currents

Tracking flows of people, news and ideas as they interact with secular and religious dynamics.

Featured in Global Currents

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Global Currents Articles

The IHRA’s Careless Conflations on Antisemitism (and Few Alternatives)

Moshe Behar
March 25, 2021August 19, 2022

Branding as “antisemitic” criticism of Israeli actions pertaining to its occupation—on the ground that this applies a double standard—is Orwellian.

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Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

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The Peace Dimensions of Fratelli Tutti: A Muslim Perspective

A. Rashied Omar
March 22, 2021

Pope Francis has inaugurated a constructive platform for credible Muslim leaders to enter into a renewed dialogue with Catholics.

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Fraternity is More Durable than Fratricide : Pope Francis Visits Iraq

Omar Mohammed and Victoria Fontan
March 18, 2021March 19, 2021

Pope Francis might have performed a diplomatic miracle: that of beginning to help bridge the religious fault lines in Iraq by encouraging, for the first time, Ayatollah al-Sistani to appear in public.

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Uyghur Oppression from a Decolonial Perspective

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Chiara Olivieri
March 5, 2021

Since post-colonial times have not (yet) come for the Uyghurs, a decolonial approach to the Uyghur issue must start by assuming the colonial nature of the relations between the Chinese nation-state and both the Uyghurs and their homeland.

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Whose People? The Oppression of Uyghurs and the Idea of the Muslim World

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Perin Gürel
February 19, 2021

Public callouts against Muslim-majority countries’ silence on Uyghur oppression demonstrate how normative ideas about “the Muslim World” and monolithic ideas about Islam in politics continue to prevail at multiple discursive levels despite vast evidence of the heterogeneity of the politics of Muslim-majority countries.

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Religion, Uyghurs, and the Global War on Terror

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Kristian Petersen
February 11, 2021

While the Uyghur crisis doesn’t revolve solely around Islamic identity and practice, the category “religion” provides an organizing framework that the People’s Republic of China utilizes to justify its continued oppression of the community.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism is Bad for Jews, Israel, and Peace

Atalia Omer
January 21, 2021January 22, 2021

Antisemitism, like other forms of racism and bigotry, should be rejected by appeals to human rights and justice, not through the closure of critical thinking and blind acceptance of official Israeli state policies.

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Secularism’s Prisoners

Series: Secularism in France
Ebrahim Moosa
December 10, 2020December 11, 2020

The theater of Macron’s crusade is his own backyard, the banlieues—from where the uncivilized darkness will lift when floodlit by the vaunted French version of secularism, laïcité.

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Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France
Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

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