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COVID-19 lockdown in Chinese villages: Radical measures positively received 中文

  • Dr Xiao Tan, Professor Mark Yaolin Wang, Dr Yao Song & Associate Professor Tianyang Liu,

New research indicates COVID-19 restrictions were largely accepted by Chinese villagers and satisfaction with the government’s response is high.

Australia’s Muslims strongly reject an association between Islam and violent extremism

  • Associate Professor Halim Rane,

Overcoming prejudices concerning Islam and Muslims must involve acknowledgement of an ethical, progressive and peaceful Islam that teaches respectful coexistence with non-Muslims.

Death penalty for apostasy: Selected Sunni and Shi’a scholars’ views in favour of abolition

  • Dr Ali Akbar & Professor Abdullah Saeed,

A change of religion is a personal matter and should not lead to any form of punishment, let alone the death penalty.

Politicising blasphemy in Indonesia: How Islamic alliances are established

  • Rafiqa Qurrata A’yun,

Conservative Muslim groups in an increasingly Islamic Indonesian society are attempting to establish alliances with opportunist politicians.

GODROADS: Modalities of Conversion in India. Editors: Peter Berger, Sarbeswar Sahoo

  • Matthew Wilkinson,

The book offers an alternative script for the Indian conversion experience, one that conceptualises conversion as a heterogenous experience rather than a single and individualised event.

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