At the national party congress of the governing populist right-wing Progress Party in Norway in May, the assembled party delegates adopted resolutions calling for state control of Norwegian mosques in...
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Fighting words that are not fought
by Sindre Bangstad...Hege Storhaug, of Human Rights Service (HRS), in an op-ed in the mainstream liberal-conservative newspaper Aftenposten, by far the most influential newspaper in Norway, compared Muslims in prayer during a...
Complicating hate speech matters
...and has to date sold over fifty thousand copies in Norway. Sales of Storhaug’s book were boosted by lavish mainstream media coverage in Norway, by social media recommendations of the...
The public voice of Muslim women
by Sindre Bangstad...equality should have become pronounced in Norway by the 1990s, or that many Norwegian secular state feminists took the lead in promoting and legitimizing such discourses. It was not as...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...Penal Code provide the affective infrastructure for global religion in the twenty-first century. In Pakistan, for instance, contemporary debates around blasphemy are produced via the Code, to which new sections...
Most-Read Essays of 2024

...previously published on TIF but appearing this year with new introductions, or published in 2024 for the first time. Scholars address wide-ranging topics—from thinking critically about the different experiences of...
Islamophobia and terror in Norway
by Jessica Polebaum...Breivik’s thoughts and ideas in Norway and elsewhere share any direct responsibility for his deeds. But mass murder, as Norway’s most prominent political philosopher, Arne Johan Vetlesen has argued in...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...existing code to create something different and new. This is a process that reflects a deep religious commitment.” Ahmed’s project is avowedly utopian, and it seems to me it would...
Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion

...but are not limited to, the role of religious ideas, practices, and organizations in the 2024 presidential race and its outcome; changing views on migrants, borders, and territory or land;...
Call for Applications | Research and Working Group Grants through the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative

...match the requested amount. The grant period is March 15, 2023 – March 15, 2024, and all grant funds must be spent by March 15, 2024. The final report will...