Tag: Religion
35 Articles
- Society & Culture
In the Shadow of a Murder: Religious Freedom Versus the Social Good in Japan
Politics and Religion in Japan Before 1945, the separation of church and state was a foreign concept in Japan. The eminent scholar of Japanese religion, Joseph Kitagawa (1915)…
April 14, 2025
- Society & Culture
Tackling Hindu-Muslim Conflict at the Interstices of Faith
Introduction A common assumption in the study of religion is that various creeds are inherently antagonistic, rendering religion a putative cause of war and terrorism. Accounts…
February 9, 2024
- Human Rights & Development
The Politics of Identity: State-building and Erasure in Modi’s ‘New’ India
The 1992 demolition of the sixteenth-century Babri Masjid mosque followed a lengthy campaign led by Narendra Modi—at that time a mid-level party leader in Gujarat—to replace…
December 2, 2023
- Society & Culture
Autocephaly, Geopolitics, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Recently, mainstream media has featured the decision of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) to allow its parishes to celebrate Christmas on December 25 instead of on January 7…
May 8, 2023
- Human Rights & Development
Women’s Rights and Islamic Feminism in Egypt
Over the past few decades, there has been intense competition between Islamists and the Egyptian state over who is the true representative of Islam. Since Anwar el-Sadat’s era,…
June 8, 2022
- Human Rights & Development
Iran’s Educational System and the Institutionalization of Gender Inequality
In 2020, instead of attending school, a fourteen-year-old girl named Romina Ashrafi was killed at the hands of her father because she had eloped with a twenty-nine-year-old man.…
April 4, 2022
- Society & Culture
Rohingya Refugees and the Urgency of Solutions
The Rohingya refugee situation goes back decades. While the mass influx of some 866,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh which began in August 2017 was shocking, it…
April 20, 2021
- Dialogues
Professor Cherian George on Hate Propaganda and Democracy
GJIA: In your book Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy, you show that the term ‘hate speech’ insufficiently describes the use of…
February 11, 2021
- Global Governance
Ireland and America: A Special Affinity
Nearly a century ago, in October 1924, Ireland opened diplomatic relations with the United States of America when Timothy Smiddy presented his credentials to President Calvin…
February 2, 2021
- Business & Economics
The End of Petrodollar Recycling and the Future of Islamic Finance
What Islamic Finance Does Not, But Should Muslims account for a disproportionate share of the world’s poor. Not only are Muslim majority countries likely to have…
November 6, 2020