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Religion, Politics, and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Defending Protestant Britain in the Age of Secularism

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures

Cathal McManus
February 20, 2024

Is it possible for the Orange Order to reimagine itself in a manner that allows it to protect its core principles but at the same time become a force for political, cultural, and religious reconciliation?

Islamophobia Beyond Christchurch: Muslims as Tamed Others

Series: Christchurch and Beyond

Lailatul Fitriyah
June 18, 2019August 7, 2019

Islamophobia is intertwined with state-sponsored violence and securitization, narratives of nationalism, and the flows of the global market and commodification.

On Crossroads: Learnings from Modernity, Feminisms, and Transrational Peace

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Paula Facci
June 29, 2018

Scholars and practitioners of feminist, gender, and critical race theory have long questioned the self-righteousness, rigid categorizations, and violence of dominant modern discourse.

Drepung monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. It was from here that the 2nd through the 5th Dalai Lama lived and ruled - until the 5th commissioned the Potala to be built.

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Anne C. Klein
February 16, 2018

When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.

Articles tagged as "Otherness"

Religion, Politics, and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Defending Protestant Britain in the Age of Secularism

Islamophobia Beyond Christchurch: Muslims as Tamed Others

On Crossroads: Learnings from Modernity, Feminisms, and Transrational Peace

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness