Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Even when driven only by profits, corporate producers of consumer goods inevitably deploy the cultural power of their brands to offer recognition to minority consumers.
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Although non-Muslims are a small minority in Aceh, they are citizens too, and should have equal rights.
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What patterns of inclusion and exclusion do non-Muslims in Aceh experience?
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MICHAEL VICENTE PEREZ
The temporary inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in the national body involved the exclusion of Muslims through the discourse of the war on terror. Read the full article »
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This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of each, we gain analytical clarity about the complex negotiations of identity, never static but always becoming.
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Nell Bolton of Catholic Relief Services offers analysis on how inter-religious action (IRA) intersects with some of the questions animating Contending Modernities, particularly those related to authority, community, and identity.
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Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.
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In Upper Egypt, escalating patterns of violence along religiocultural fault-lines can be explained in terms of societal separation.
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The battles these women had waged for legal, religious, economic, social, and other forms of equality since the 1980s had started to bear fruit; new opportunities had opened to women, and debates about their legal rights had reached the public press and political platforms.
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During the years following 9/11, Indonesia’s foreign ministry promoted Indonesia as the model for “moderate Islam.”
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