Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
What was it that disconnected the vast majority of South Asian Muslims from this vibrant tradition of art and creativity?
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Imagine you’re a young Christian woman from the United States. A veiled Pakistani woman tells you that she has more freedom than you. How would you react?
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It can be unsettling for Muslims like myself, who have grown up reading the Quranic account of human creation in a particular way, to consider evolution a valid explanation for the creation of life.
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Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young Singaporean Muslim leader. How will you guide your community through questions of diversity and modernity?
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It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.
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Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.
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In the current religio-political life in Indonesia, the naming of God as Merciful becomes a public discourse geared toward a theology of inclusivity.
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Without careful nurturing and dedicated attention to the past as well as the present, tradition becomes an instrument of power, and a source of learned ignorance.
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The history of the United States is a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious one. But that history is often not told.
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Men’s clothing is the marker of the nation’s power and modernity; women’s clothing is the marker of its morality, honor, and ethnic identity.
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