18 June 2019
Caught in the crossfire of ambitious geopolitical players, Al-Azhar struggles to chart a course that will guarantee it a measure... Read more
Category: Articles
23 December 2018
Although a theoretically ever-expanding Caliphate does not recognize international borders or traditional states, its leadership nonetheless strived to reproduce all... Read more
20 March 2018
Neopagan supporters and detractors of the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump are using magical rituals to either bless or curse... Read more
02 March 2017
Analysing the current phenomena of alternative religiosities through a post-Soviet lens may be productive in the Azerbaijani context, given the... Read more
25 November 2016
Church planting, once the specialty of evangelicals, is now becoming more common among mainline Protestants seeking to reverse decades of... Read more
23 November 2016
The tiny kingdom of Bhutan is pitching for a Buddhist approach to economics citing concerns beyond a country’s financial health.... Read more
05 November 2016
In the 1990s, some Western European countries published reports and established state agencies or state-sponsored information centres to deal with... Read more
27 October 2016
To Western scholars and specialists Salafism holds a double fascination: foremost it is treated as the fountainhead of jihadist ideology;... Read more
03 August 2016
At the conference 'ISIS in Europe' a panel of scholars and security experts tackled the interlinked issues of jihadi radicalization... Read more
02 August 2016
Over the past twenty years, the painstakingly methodical, graduated, nuanced and non-violent strategy of political Islamists has been eclipsed by... Read more