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Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part One: Information on Trial

June 10, 2014

The first in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and...

March 11, 2013

By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in...

October 11, 2012

By Austin Dacey The claims of the believer and the claims of the blasphemer, so-called, are symmetrical.The value motivating...

October 8, 2012

by Austin Dacey The trick with monotheisms is that competition comes not just from neighboring gods, but even from...

September 27, 2012

by Irina Papkova there's an eerie similarity between the reaction of some Orthodox believers to Pussy Riot and the...

September 25, 2012

by Alex Thurston Protests against the Innocence of Muslims film have taken on a global scope...in sub-Saharan Africa, responses...

September 14, 2012

By Austin Dacey F. M. Husain was hounded out of his native India...by Hindu conservatives outraged by his...

September 4, 2012

By Austin Dacey Opponents of hate speech laws contend that there is no evidence to suggest that the state...

July 30, 2012

by Austin Dacey Do you have a human right to blaspheme? Ask a philosopher and you may get two...

July 18, 2012

by Austin Dacey The Indian Penal Code was drafted in 1837 by the Indian Law Commission...In their commentaries,...

June 25, 2012

by Austin Dacey Fifty-six years before Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses thrust blasphemy into the spotlight of Western...