As participants in the academic project, we must ask: How are we complicit in maintaining the whiteness and maleness of religious studies, and also what ought we do to atone for our…
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Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Africa and free/hate speech
January 4, 2019
In the era of post-truth, alternative facts, and fake news, hate, hateful, inflammatory, and dangerous speech pervade the African continent as never before.
January 4, 2019
The House of Government
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
December 21, 2018
As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on The House of Government, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and Todd Weir interviewed author Yuri Slezkine.
December 21, 2018
Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Freedom’s fascists: Hate speech and the new European far right
December 21, 2018
Far right parties have metamorphisized: they are now anti-Islamic rather than anti-Semitic; as populist parties they rely on mass mobilization around a narrow range of issues, but they remain democratic with no…
December 21, 2018
Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Blasphemy and “hate spin” campaigns in Indonesia
December 14, 2018
On May 9, 2017, the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, was convicted of blasphemy in the North Jakarta District Court and sentenced to two years in prison. The conviction…
December 14, 2018
Hate speech, religious insult, critique
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
December 14, 2018
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief and believer is negotiated socially and jurisprudentially across a range of contemporary…
December 14, 2018
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