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British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban, tells Asma Hanif that oppression of Muslim women has to do with traditions rather than with Islam and explains why she became a Muslim.
© 2007 Asma Hanif.
“Hizbullah is the result of a long historical process… Hizbullah is not a monolithic movement, but rather a coalition of Shi’ite clerics… Hizbullah is more than 25 years old. ‘The future is ours’, to quote Nasrallah, and from a demographic viewpoint, he is very likely to be right.” – Prof. Joseph Alagha, who teaches a the Lebanese American University, shares his insights on Hizbullah.
This interview with Prof. Alagha was conducted by Olivier Moos in Beirut in April 2007.
Joseph Alagha, The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology, and Political Program
, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, 380 pages.
“Swedenborg died in 1772. There were probably at that time four or five people who had read his works and felt that they were true. He never attempted to found a church and he never preached. He only wrote these books. It is fascinating that, in spite the fact he only wrote these books, by the year 1800 the books had literally been carried all over the world and had influenced large numbers of people.” — Jane Williams-Hogan answers our questions on Swedenborg and the religious movement based upon his message.
General Conference of the New Church
Swedenborgian Church of North America (formerly General Convention)
General Church of the New Jerusalem
The Lord’s New Church which is Nova Hierosolyma
The questions of Religioscope to Jane Williams-Hogan were asked by Jean-François Mayer. The tape-recorded interview was transcribed by Nancy Grivel-Burke.
Minor typographical and stylistical revisions on 19 July 2006
‘An interdisciplinary, transhistorical, global project covering women and Islamic cultures’ – this is how Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, describes her ambitious project. The author of several books, Prof. Joseph – a native of Lebanon – is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC).
Fresh protests have broken out in parts of the Muslim world about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have appeared in European newspapers. The controversy has raised questions about what limits, if any, can be put on freedom of speech when it comes to religion. – Interview with David Nash, author of the upcoming book Blasphemy In The West and a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.
© 2006 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
Website: http://www.rferl.org/
Three months have passed since the evacuation by the Sharon government of all settlements in the Gaza strip. What are the consequences of this withdrawal for the Gush Emunim, “the settler movement”? What are the consequences of the withdrawal for the messianic doctrine of the movement? Religioscope has asked Gideon Aran, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and one of the best experts on the movement that he has covered for the last 20 years.
Jean-Marc Flükiger, contributing editor to the French speaking website Terrorisme.net, talked with Dr. Aran. Religioscope would like to thank Mrs. Margareta Flükiger for her improvements and copy-editing of the English version of the text. For a French translation of the interview, see www.terrorisme.net.
Radio Free Iraq (RFI) correspondent Asma al-Sarraj recently interviewed female Islamist activists on the constitution. She spoke with Mahdiya Abd al-Lami, a member of the Muslim Women’s Federation who advocates a constitution based on Islamic law. Al-Sarraj also interviewed Islamist activist Salama Sumaysim, who said she represents the voice of “moderate Islam.”
© 2005 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
Website: http://www.rferl.org/
There are now many academic books and articles on contemporary Paganism, especially in North America. Moreover, Paganism has grown into a more international phenomenon. In order to learn more about Paganism today, Religioscope has met with Selena Fox, who has been active for many years in this field as the leader of Circle.
The interview with Selena Fox took place in Barcelona on July 12, 2004. The tape recording was transcribed by Nancy Grivel-Burke. The transcript was revised by Selena Fox in August 2005.
Inspired by Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash, Vico C started rapping while growing up in Puerto Rico. His albums went gold and platinum on the island, but his mind stayed in the ghetto. Through evangelical Christianity, he dropped a cocaine habit and today he combines a social and spiritual message that reflects the pain of living on the margins.
The interview with Vico C was conducted by José Orozco. Born and raised in Chicago, José Orozco works as a freelance reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, where he covers social issues.
© 2004 José Orozco. All rights reserved.
In 2002, after years of work on political Islam, French scholar Olivier Roy published a major book on “globalized Islam”. A revised and updated version of this work has now been published in English.
Olivier Roy,Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, London: Hurst, 2004 – or click here if you prefer to order the US edition (published by Columbia University Press).
The interview was conducted online in November 2004. Olivier Roy was interviewed by Jean-Francois Mayer.
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