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How Blasphemy Got Personal

June 25, 2012

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

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

June 25, 2012

by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here...

Review

More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

June 25, 2012

by Abhimanyu Das The Church of England inhabits a unique place in this busy trafficking of religious stereotypes. They're...

Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey's The Future of Blasphemy

June 15, 2012

We do not know what the first blasphemer said. We do know that he was a stranger who came...

Mauritania: Islamic Response to the Sahel Drought

June 15, 2012

By Alex Thurston 9/11 changed the trajectory of Islamic humanitarian agencies in Africa and around the world...The US government...

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

June 12, 2012

By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...

Mass Wedding in Kano

June 11, 2012

by Alex Thurston A recent story from Nigeria, one that touches on both marriage and shari’a, offers the possibility...

Al Shabaab: Where Do They Go From Here?

June 7, 2012

Joe McKnight Ever since Somali President Siad Barre’s government was removed from power in 1991, Somalia has lacked an...

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

June 6, 2012

by Alex Thurston Government-run Islamic schools, then, are to be a source of “counter-radicalization” as well as a means...

Nigerian Universities: Islamic Studies in Secular Universities

June 4, 2012

By Alex Thurston Nigeria has around 100 universities, most of them public, and many public and private colleges. Various tertiary...

Feature, Review

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

May 21, 2012

Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy By Timothy Byrnes. Georgetown University Press, 2001. 216 pp. by Frances...

Feature

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

May 18, 2012

By Alex Thurston This is the fourth post in a series on Islamic education in Northern Nigeria. The first post...

Feature

"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

May 15, 2012

This post is the third in a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. The first post gave an...

Feature

Manufacturing Visions:A Review of "The Virgin, the Copts and Me"

May 10, 2012

By Abhimanyu Das Namir Abdel Messeeh's highly entertaining documentary The Virgin, the Copts and Me is a curious beast,...

In the World weekly links, Pandora's Box edition

May 4, 2012

…most residents of Trivandrum had not been clamoring for the temple’s vaults to be searched. This had initially puzzeled...

Feature

The Poets of Srebrenica

May 4, 2012

by Janaki Challa “Countless contradictory analyses have seen the light of day about the ensuing bloody events in the territory of...

Feature

Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

May 1, 2012

by Alex Thurston This is the second post in a series on Muslim education in Northern Nigeria. Read the first...

Feature

Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

April 26, 2012

by Irina Papkova The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state...

Review

The World Before Her: Making Indian Women

April 23, 2012

A review of The World Before Her, now showing in the Tribeca Film Festival. by Natasha Raheja The opening sequence...

In the World links, Unfinished Business edition

April 13, 2012

Nora Connor: In 2008 the Chinese government recognized the annual Qingming festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, as a national...

Education as Battleground: Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria

April 10, 2012

by Alex Thurston This post is the first of a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. Steady acts of violence...

In the World Links: Lost & Found in Translation Edition

April 4, 2012

Nora Connor: In Poland, the Bhagavad Gita is now available in translation directly from Sanskrit to Polish, thanks...

Review

Riot in the Cathedral

March 30, 2012

A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...

Feature

The Pope Has Left the Island

March 28, 2012

By Nora Connor Pope...

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How Blasphemy Got Personal

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

Sacrilege: an excerpt from Austin Dacey's The Future of Blasphemy

Mauritania: Islamic Response to the Sahel Drought

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

Mass Wedding in Kano

Al Shabaab: Where Do They Go From Here?

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

Nigerian Universities: Islamic Studies in Secular Universities

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

Manufacturing Visions:A Review of "The Virgin, the Copts and Me"

In the World weekly links, Pandora's Box edition

The Poets of Srebrenica

Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

The World Before Her: Making Indian Women

In the World links, Unfinished Business edition

Education as Battleground: Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria

In the World Links: Lost & Found in Translation Edition

Riot in the Cathedral

The Pope Has Left the Island

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