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Druze are often held up as the best-integrated of Israel’s Arab minorities. But members of the faith who live in the Golan Heights have an especially complicated relationship with Israel.
Yezidis are an example of what one scholar calls ‘liminal minorities’: faith communities whose religions’ legitimacy is denied by more powerful groups.
Archival documents show that in the 1980s, British education officials refused to engage with Muslim communities about funding faith-based schooling.
With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
Persecution is central to Jewish collective memory. So when armed police entered ultra-Orthodox areas of Jerusalem to close synagogues due to COVID-19, some residents reacted with fear and suspicion.
A scholar who spent 24 months in the Uighur-dominated regions of China recalls when the Chinese crackdown on Uighurs started in 2017 – people were picked up and never returned.
Chronic violence was dampening the holiday spirit in Chihuahua, Mexico. So the Mennonite community planned a ‘Parade of Lights’ and holiday party where neighbors could celebrate safely even at night.
Interviews with the Yazidi survivors of IS attacks that killed 3,100 people in 2014 reveal the emotional, cultural and spiritual scars of religious persecution.
Many scholars agree it is impossible to have a clear, universal definition of religion. Given this ambiguity, passing new laws using a specific concept of religion can have serious repercussions.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he’s ushering in a ‘new India.’ But this new era is of ethnic majoritarianism and erases differences, dissent and the rights of minorities.
A religious minority of Pakistan, the Ahmadis have been boycotting elections for decades. Casting a vote would require that they denounce themselves as ‘non-Muslims.’
An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world’s largest Muslim majority country.
Although South Africa has taken steps to rid itself of the apartheid-era view of marriage as only heterosexual and monogamous, discrimination against religious marriages persist.
Prioritising groups of refugees, such as Syrian Christians, over others will only create further polarisation.
Mesopotamia is known as the ‘Cradle of Civilization’. We must not let it continue to be a cradle for genocide and terrorism.
How white Republicans and white Democrats feel about Muslims is influencing their candidate choice as well as willingness to vote in the 2016 election.
Perceptions of hordes of refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos have damaged tourism. But the refugees are dignified people, not beggars. An initiative is needed to bring tourists back to the island.
There’s an understandable impulse to treat all refugees the same regardless of religious identity. But is that actually helpful?
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Religion, Forced Migration, and Minority Rights Researcher, UCL
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Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Senior Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
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Adjunct and Professor Emerita, Politics, University of Victoria
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University
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Professor of Legal Pluralism, Religious Family Laws, and Human Rights, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Soran University
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Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Lecturer in Secondary History Education, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Central Florida
