This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how religious belief and expression fit with extant and modern polictical and economic infrastructures. It is difficult to determine ...

Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of modernity and asks about its current significance for the dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia. Drawing on ...

"This book fills a gap in authoritative analyses of the causes of inter-religious conflict and the practice of religious ... Department of Political & Social Change College of Asia & the Pacific, The ...

Southeast Asian countries have deported or detained hundreds of Uyghur asylum seekers fleeing ethnic and religious persecution in China, according to an investigation by The New York Times Magazine.

A Singaporean man was charged on Monday with stabbing a Catholic priest celebrating a weekend Mass, court papers showed, but authorities said there was no evidence the attack was religiously motivated ...

Ching Ming is an occasion for Chinese families to honour their dead by burning paper money and objects useful in the afterlife, offering food and wine, and clearing tombs of dust, weeds and debris ...

A fierce religious identity dominates the Sunni-majority nation, with principles of the Koran, conservative Sunni teachings known as Wahhabism and strict Islamic Shariah law present in all aspects ...

It’s a little early for Advent, but I’ve been thinking about the idea of the Promised One coming to deliver Israel. We’ll ...

A fortnight ago, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced US$880 million would be given as compensation to 1,353 victims of ...

Asia, and (to a lesser extent) Africa in the early period of European colonialism. In some cases where the original religions of people were not suppressed following the uptake of Abrahamic ...

By Deborah Castellano Lubov The parish priest of St Joseph's Church in Upper Bukit Timah, Singapore, was stabbed during Mass ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence – to be models of faith and strength.