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Why do we care so much about the fate of religion?

Date:16 October 2025Author:Erin Wilson

On 4 September this year, the national Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant published an article profiling recent sociological research on rising secularisation around the world. Debate over whether the disappearance of religion was something universal or...

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The holy digital battleground: The Rise of Christian Nationalist Discourses and Anti-Muslim Violence in Spain

Date:23 September 2025Author:Pol Campos Martinez

An elderly man from the town of Torre Pacheco (Murcia, Spain) was beaten by a group of three young people on July 9, 2025. The attackers were speaking Arabic. The image of the victim, with his face swollen, bruised and with a bloodshot eye, circulated...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

A Second Reformation? Nineteenth-Century Protestant Mission Activism among Ottoman Palestine’s Native Churches

Date:18 July 2025Author:Imani Salina Nijp

Jerusalem 1851, a new missionary arrived in Ottoman Palestine to commit himself to the Protestant mission cause, together with the many other Christian missionaries who reached the region during this period. Entering the city with a level of uncertainty...

Documentation of a ceremony

Living ‘Lived Religion’ in an Afro-Brazilian Temple

Date:16 June 2025Author:Nathan Harrison-Clarke

I recognised the person standing in front of me. But the voice that spoke was not his.

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Condoms vs Candy and Rosaries in the Philippines

Date:19 May 2025Author:Kim Knibbe

On Valentine’s day, a pro-life group in the Philippines handed out candies and rosaries in exchange for condoms. These condoms were also liberally distributed that day by organisations promoting safe sex. By offering candy and rosaries, they were promoting...

Pope Francis

The pope and the pelvic issues

Date:25 April 2025Author:Kim Knibbe

When I heard the news that pope Francis had passed away, I was reminded of the discussions when he was elected to succeed pope Benedict. He was the first pope from ‘the global south’, was seen as relatively progressive, and the choice of the name Francis...

(Monks at Qi Yun Temple still waiting for the archaeological team. Photo by Chengcheng, June 2023.)

A Temple, a Cake, and a Heritage Dilemma: Living with Preservation

Date:09 April 2025Author:Chengcheng Yang

A Monk, a Cake, and a Heritage Site

Coptic codex

Mary Magdalene and Peter: A contest between disciples

Date:06 March 2025Author:Laura Osigwe

After Jesus’ departure from this world, the apostles carried on proclaiming the Gospel and fulfilled various functions of leadership in the earliest churches. Needless to say, early Christian texts are preoccupied with this apostolic authority, and traced...

Mill for finger millet (photo by Ashutosh Kumar, 2024).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - Preliminary conclusions (6/6)

Date:21 December 2024Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

After intensive ethnographic and archaeobotanical research as part of our research project, we can identify some trends in the cereal crops of Odisha, India. First of all, it is clear that the new policies of the state, implemented by various governmental...

The infructescence of finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.), reminiscent of the shape of fingers (Copyright photo: RUG/GIA; Photographer: D. Fennema).

Millets: Ancient Grains, Global Policies, Local Lifeworlds - The deep-history of millets in Odisha (5/6)

Date:20 December 2024Author:Peter Berger, René Cappers, Sonja Filatova, Roland Hardenberg, Ashutosh Kumar and Nidhi Trivedi

How and when did millets become so deeply entangled with the cultures and lifeworlds of the Parenga, the Didayi, and other millet-cultivating communities in the highlands of Odisha? Under what circumstances were various millets chosen to become part of the...

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