Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
Category: Religion
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Muslims in Scotland: Demographic, social and cultural characteristics
By Stefano Bonino First published on the LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog – read the original article Far…
Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Studies in World Christianity, Issue 22.2 — Centre for the Study of World Christianity
By Brian Stanley Beyond the Binary of East and West However hard it tries, scholarship in world Christianity does not…
By Eva Pascal What do Buddhist monks and Christian friars have in common? Quite a bit, in fact. While travelling…
By Deanna Ferree Womack Images of Islam abound these days, and many of them are troubling. Those who speak loudly…
Philosophy
‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance
Jean Baudrillard on Muslims in France, the simulation of freedom in America, the demise of the intellectual and why French theory is like the Statue of Liberty.