Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
Category: Religion
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
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…