Asia The formative Muslim-Chinese encounter April 3, 2020 0 Image credit: Chinese Mosque by Revolution_Ferg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Niv Horesh. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) soft-power parleys to the Arab…
China China’s religion problem: Why the Chinese Communist Party views religious belief as a threat October 17, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Kevin Poh/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. By John Powers. Beginning in the earliest grades, Chinese students are subjected to anti-religious propaganda. They learn that…
Ethnic Minorities Peacebuilding from the grassroots: Resolving conflicts in Mindanao April 1, 2019 0 Written by Julius Cesar Trajano. The peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was hailed as a significant step…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar nationalism: The monks, the military and the Muslims March 8, 2019 0 Written by Mikael Gravers. Is there a specifically Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar? True, there are many nationalist monks, but Buddhism is only one element in…
Elections Is an Islamic state on the cards for Malaysia after its general elections? June 28, 2018 0 Written by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid. For the first time in the history of Malaysia as a nation state, which gained independence from the British…
China Actively Guiding Religion under Xi Jinping June 21, 2018 1 Written by Jérôme Doyon. In April 2016, Xi Jinping chaired the National Religious Work Conference. It was the first time the CCP General Secretary chaired such…
China Chinese Islam in the City June 18, 2018 0 Written by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis. There are two major forces pressing on Chinese Muslims. The first is the massive urbanization in search of a better…
China Playing the Long Game? The Politics of Religious Revival in China and Tibet June 15, 2018 0 Written by Martin Mills. "Religion" in China has never fitted well into European conceptions of the topic. Certainly, getting any kind of statistical handle on…
China Islam in Xinjiang: “De-Extremification” or Violation of Religious Space? June 15, 2018 1 Written by Joanne Smith Finley. As recently reported in the press, since Spring 2017, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang…
