Opinion

For Australian Muslims, community-led religious authority is preferable to top-down regulation

Australian Muslims have spent decades building grassroots religious leadership within civic spaces — these systems, while not perfect, provide accountability and independence that top-down regulation ...
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Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts

Knowledge transfer never occurs in a vacuum and is rarely, if ever, disinterested. In this paper, I examine how political factors influenced Christian missionaries’ in the production, dissemination ...
The Atlantic

Theories on the Religious Expertise of Atheists

On Tuesday, Pew released its bombshell survey showing that Americans have a shaky grasp of religious knowledge, with atheists outscoring Christians--including on questions about Christianity. Jews and ...
The Spokesman-Review

Faith and Values: Launching a community class focused on religious literacy

Several times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...
The Nation Newspaper

Shallow religious knowledge responsible for violent extremism in Nigeria –East London Mosque Imam

The Imam of the East London Mosque, Shaykh Mohammed Mahmoud, has attributed insurgency and violent extremism in northern Nigeria to shallow religious understanding, insisting that Islam does not ...
The Nation Newspaper

Shallow religious knowledge responsible for violent extremism in Nigeria – Imam

Imam of the East London Mosque, Shaykh Mohammed Mahmoud, has described insurgency and violent extremism in northern Nigeria as the product of shallow religious knowledge, insisting that Islam does not ...