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A two-part episode of Peacemakers in Action The Peacemakers in Action Network is an interreligious alliance of spiritual leaders and scholars, who are motivated by their religious faith to arbitrate disputes in conflict zones throughout the world. The Peacemakers in Action podcast is one place where these arbitrators tell their stories. The responsibility of sharing…
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Robert W. Hefner is a professor of anthropology and global studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Dr. Hefner has directed some twenty-one research projects and organized sixteen international conferences, drawing on specialists from political science, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and law. He has authored or edited twenty-one books. His most…
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A three-part documentary delving into America’s struggle to bring principles of religious freedom into practice The United States often portrays itself as the epicenter of the so-called free world. But what of the conflict for peace and equality between religious groups that has plagued the American experiment since its inception and persists to this very…
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Unfinished Indonesia examines the political use and abuse of Islamic appeals and symbols in Indonesia’s 2019 national elections. Against this gripping contemporary backdrop, the film also explores the question of how the place of Islam in the Indonesian nation came to be such a point of contention, and its implications for rival understandings of Islam,…
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Since 2015, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party have kept immigration on the top of Hungary’s political agenda. In the 2018 elections, the question of Muslim refugees was central in the campaign, with Orban using the issue not just to solidify his base but also to expand his support.
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This paper examines the rise of the new sectarianism within the Arab world, specifically looking at Bahrain, Lebanon and Iran, and offers key policy recommendations for the United States. In the midst of the Arab Awakening, there is a new Sunni-Shi’a divide which has greatly complicated the diplomatic and geopolitical challenges facing the United States…
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Cover Rethinking Political Islam Edited by Shadi Hamid and William McCants Description For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of…
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Immigration is a top concern for Trump supporters, but they are not primarily concerned with Islam per se. Interviewees’ suspicions about Muslims were often tied up with broader concerns about immigration from culturally and linguistically different groups who threatened America’s cohesion.
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Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and world politics, when determined or framed by nationalism fused with religious…
