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The largest annual gathering of feminists in the UK organized by FiLiA, an event regularly attended by 1000-1200 women, is a good entry point into issues of concern to British feminists. But what is atypical for British feminism, it has a…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit E-mail To print Within the Iranian Army of Terror and Oppression: The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Recent events in the region, from the Middle East to Central Asia and Europe, indicate…

Last updated on Sunday 10 October 2021, 16:02 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali President Irfaan Ali, being a Muslim, has obtained international support from the main countries of the Arab world, Governance Minister Gail…

With the arrival in power of the Taliban, the question of religion takes a preponderant place. However, there is still hesitation among intellectuals and silence in political circles to discuss the issue of religion and fundamentalism.…

Some nations and cultures experienced a phase of fundamentalism as they sought to reach a higher level of civilization. This has happened in predominantly Western cultures in all areas of this phase of the history of human…

The Israeli NGO Impact-reports that the Saudi authorities are continuing their work of "moderation and openness" in textbooks. The definitions of "infidels" and "enemies of God" have been removed. Society remains traditional, gender…

January 25 (UPI) - As the country with the second largest reserves of gas and oil in the world, Iran is a crumbling ruin, a legacy of 42 years of Islamic fundamentalism. Iran's ruling theocratic dictatorship has been a disaster for its…

Christian fundamentalism in the United States has been losing ground over the past two decades. Fundamentalists have embraced Donald Trump partly because they recognize him as one of their own (despite their vast moral and theological…

Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba said in an October 29, 2019 interview with Ten TV (Egypt) that religious fundamentalism has spread rapidly in the Middle East, Africa and Asia because these regions lack secular movements. He said…

November 9 was the anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall began to fall. It was also the anniversary of the start of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogroms against the Jews of Germany that took place in November 1938. This makes it…

In The future of faith (2009), the inimitable Harvey Cox writes: “The conservative-evangelical-fundamentalist community is neither monolithic nor still. It is divided and subdivided along theological, racial, gender,…

We really need to talk about Mehdi Hasan's latest Intercept video. In the clip titled Caliph Donald Trump and the Rise of the Christian Taliban, broadcaster and journalist Hasan spends nearly four minutes warning viewers against the…

When Shoshana Johnson decided to join the military, his intention was not to make history. Originally from Panama, where her Catholic foundation was laid, she and her family moved to the United States as a child.…

Faced with the worldwide return of religion with a political vengeance against the laity and between religions, Peter Berger, the American sociologist of religions accepted the failure of his thesis on secularization.…

For many years, much has been said about the fall of religions under the influence of the Enlightenment and modernity, leading to "disenchantment” as argued by Max Weber. Some extreme moves even sought to eliminate religion…

The Catholic Church is well known for its opposition to many important "-isms" over the years: it has risen up against secularism, materialism, communism and modernism with vigor and determination. Now it seems that Pope Francis has…