17 May 2004 European Union: God unlikely to get a name check in European Constitution Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has practically ruled out the possibility of a compromise to include a reference to Europe's... Read more
07 April 2004 USA: religion survey challenges idea of secularisation Proponents of the secularisation thesis will be challenged by the findings of a new survey in the US which says... Read more
08 August 2003 Great Britain: placing religion at the centre of the New Labour project? Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Jewish representatives are to be appointed to a high profile British government committee that will have... Read more
30 March 2003 Russia: religion looms as electoral factor Nine months before Russia's parliamentary elections, there are already signs that some political figures will seek to use religious leaders... Read more
02 December 2002 Russia: ex-KGB renews interest in religion For the first time since the end of the Soviet regime, an Eastern-rite Catholic priest in Omsk region of western... Read more
27 September 2002 Azerbaijan: official outlines religious censorship procedure The head of the "expertise" department of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations has told Keston News Service... Read more
24 July 2002 Religion and international relations – The case for a religion attaché The U.S. needs to elevate the consideration of religious factors in foreign policy. Appointing religion attachés to gather information in... Read more
05 June 2002 Religion in Africa – Interview with Stephen Ellis Stephen Ellis is a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and the former director of the Centre. A... Read more
26 April 2002 The Shari’a debate: religion and politics in Nigeria – Interview with Rosalind I. J. Hackett Born in Birmingham, England, Rosalind Hackett is Professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Tennessee in... Read more
02 March 2002 United States: scholars get religion More academics are starting to see the 'religion factor' as key to understanding forces in economics, politics, and society, reports... Read more