Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs has recently released the latest of a series of five reports…
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Why Ugandans embrace the Family
At New America Media, Edwin Okong'o suggests that the U.S. Christian Right has been successful in influencing the Ugandan anti-gay…
Beginning with witness: An interview with Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson is Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an organization that stood in opposition to two world wars…
Classifying the conflict in Mindanao
At Religion Dispatches, Bruce B. Lawrence explores the ongoing conflict in Mindanao and argues that to conceptualize the conflict as…
Life after past evil: An interview with Daniel Philpott
Professor Daniel Philpott is a leading theorist of global politics and religion at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of…
The shared future of Islam and democracy
In the Huffington Post, Professor of Religion and International Affairs John L. Esposito argues that American and European governments need…
So, what about the Christian lobby?
You see, the interview on Al Arabiya confirms that the politics of fear can safely endure, barely disguised as the…
Waking up to still being a faith-based nation
The Bush administration has widely been assumed to have significantly favored evangelical Christian perspectives and organizations in its policies. A…
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
I grew up in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1950s and early 1960s. I spoke Tamil with my mother, a…
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
As the citizens of this vast metropolis seek to restore some semblance of normalcy to their lives, it is important…