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Islam and the Arab uprising
Jeffrey Haynes Guest contributor Prof Jeffrey Haynes from London Metropolitan University reflects on recent events in the Middle East and Northern Africa and their implications for how we understand...
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De groene daden van paus Benedictus XVI
Paus Benedictus XVI Foto: wikimedia commonsPaus Benedictus XVI is in veel kringen niet populair vanwege zijn conservatieve standpunten over bijvoorbeeld homoseksualiteit. Maar Benedictus werd ook wel...
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Religious authority and new media culture
The internet holds great potential for communication and creativity within religious communities, but brings with it new challenges for religious authorities. This was the central theme of a guest...
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Reflections on Pope Francis I
Following Pope Francis I’s celebration of his first Palm Sunday mass, commencing the most important week in the Catholic liturgy, we share a recent interview with Dr Mathilde van Dijk from the Faculty...
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Authority and Religion in Myanmar
In today’s post, Arnout Couperus contributes to recent discussions on the democratisation of Myanmar. He argues that the role of Buddhism should not be underestimated in the analysis of the current...
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Humanities: down to business?
In this post, Elske Kroondijk and Erik Meinema consider the increasing influence of market discourses on academic practice, and reflect on the question how scholars and students in the Humanities can...
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Summer Reading from The Religion Factor – Our Top Ten from 2012-2013
Holiday makers on Cascais beach, Portugal. Photography: Osvaldo Gago. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license Dear Readers, The Religion Factor will be taking a break...
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The Neoliberalization of Youth Peacebuilding
Youth Peacebuilders at work in Ambon, Indonesia As part of our series on human rights for Human Rights Week, in today’s post Erik Meinema investigates how the neoliberal context in which NGOs and...
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Travel Plans: Understanding Religion in Mali
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode Over the past few days, the planned UN peace mission to Mali has been covered in the news extensively. In this post Martijn van Loon analyzes...
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The struggle for justice of Dutch young Muslims in Syria
VOA News: Scott Bobb “I am powerless. (…) Please do something. Do not forsake me and all the other mothers”. 18-year-old Robin converted to Islam one and a half years ago. In November he and his friend...
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Reconciliation and Religio-political non-conformism in Zimbabwe
Earlier this year, Joram Tarusarira published his important book that analyses religious actors and identifies a specific form of engagement that they display in contexts of peacebuilding and conflict...
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Can Religion Promote Reconciliation in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe still struggles to cope in the aftermath of the economic and political violence of the early to mid-2000s. To many observers, Zimbabwe remains a divided and undemocratic ‘failed state’. In...
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Review ‘Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe’
The day before Christmas we will conclude our series on Joram Tarusarira’s new book 'Reconciliation and Religio-political Non-conformism in Zimbabwe' (read the previous review here) with yet another...
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Waarom Nederlanders geen taboes rondom seksualiteit moeten willen doorbreken
In de afgelopen zes jaar zijn Seksuele Gezondheid en Rechten (SRGR) een speerpunt geweest in het ontwikkelingsbeleid. Zo noemde Minister Ploumen Nederland een voortrekker in het doorbreken van taboes...
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The insidious inequality of contemporary democracy
One week ago today, Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. Despite pledging that ‘a new national pride will heal our divisions’, Trump’s first week in office has...
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The ‘religion or secularism’ debate on women’s equality obscures the real...
Is ‘religion’ patriarchal, antithetical to gender equality? This was a question posed last night during the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain #IWD2017 panel discussion on ‘Gender...
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The quarter finals against populism: national identity in the Dutch elections
Renée van der Harst - Wagenvoorde has written an analysis of the campaigning period and how it differs from previous years of the Dutch parliamental elections that will take place on the 15th of...
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Sexual equality and post-truth: making distinctions
On 7 March 2017, the eve of International Women's Day, the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender Studies, hosted a panel discussion evening on...
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Did the Netherlands halt populism? Political pluralism, religious diversity...
Today’s post is the second article on the Dutch elections that were held last week written by Sanne Hupkes, this time a reaction to the results of the elections and the conclusions drawn from those by...
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The vanishing option of not being political about religion: Reflections on...
The Ahok case in Indonesia has sent ripples through the international community, raising concerns about human rights and freedom of religion or belief in the Indonesian context. In today’s post,...
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