Believing and Belonging
| Date: | 23 April 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
‘The Passion’: RTL Boulevard-versie van het lijdensverhaal
| Date: | 18 April 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
“Culture” or “religion”? Understanding the popularity of the Passion
| Date: | 17 April 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Understanding Evil, Encouraging Forgiveness: Lessons from Rwanda 20 years on
| Date: | 07 April 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Today marks the 20thanniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. Both then and now, the international community had many unanswered questions about how the genocide occurred and how the evil that was perpetrated could have happened. In today’s...
The ‘Religion Factor’ and 21st Century Terrorism
| Date: | 05 April 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Religion and the Ukraine Crisis: Four Key Questions
| Date: | 06 March 2014 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
The struggle for justice of Dutch young Muslims in Syria
| Date: | 06 January 2014 |
| Author: | S Klein Schaarsberg |
Travel Plans: Understanding Religion in Mali
| Date: | 20 December 2013 |
| Author: | Christoph Grüll |
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 the motivation for the Dutch government to participate in this mission, based upon the ‘artikel 100-brief’...
Race and the study of religion: ’West’ and ‘East’, or White and non-White?
| Date: | 18 December 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
The Religion Factor post on 28 November 2013 – Religion and International Relations (IR) Theory -posed a challenge to IR scholars to be more self-reflexive in their understanding of religion and secularism. Such self-reflexive thought challenges dominant...
Humanity in Action: Religion, Human Rights and the Question of Neutrality
| Date: | 13 December 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
In today’s blog post,Brenda Bartelink reflects on aid in humanitarian emergency and disaster situations, drawing attention to how religion and human rights are lived out and practiced amidst the multiple moral frameworks that influence humanitarian...