By Victor Fan ‘Cinematic Imaging and Imagining through the Lens of Buddhism’ (from the latest issue of Paragraph) is one…
Tag: religion
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century
by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Religion and belief are two of humanity’s oldest identity codes. Identity is intertwined with religion and,…
By Peter Burke The idea that the unintended consequences of human action are often more important – for better and…
A Q&A with Gavin Miller, author of Miracles of Healing, an investigation of the relationship between religion and psychotherapy in…
The Edinburgh University Press journal Studies in World Christianity recently turned an impressive 25 years old, and to celebrate we have…
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…
Events such as the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria have brought Middle Eastern Christians into the public…
Jane de Gay discusses what Virginia Woolf really thought about Easter in a series of blog posts throughout Holy Week.
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you may not know about the history of Muslims in Central Asia
By Galina M. Yemelianova 1) There are both narrow and broad notions of Central Asia. The narrow one relates to…
When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…