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12 Feb 2009
Video games are at the core of a renewed focus of interest and have given birth to what are now known as game studies. Games eventually crystallise new forms of collective mobilisation and action and have to be considered as cultural artefacts. Vit Sisler, a researcher in game studies, tells us more about the religious and other challenges that games are posing in the Middle East and Muslim world. 
Religion and communication: can ads help the image of Islam? - Interview with Michael Hastings Black
21 Nov 2008
During a meeting with Michael Hastings Black, Religioscope discussed the impact of new media on depicting a more balanced image of the Muslim minority in the US. Black shows the democratic effect of new media and their subversive potential effect on mainstream classical media. According to him, it is through the new media and such ads, and for economic reasons that American Muslims are going to be integrated into the American national narrative.
India: does Hinduism exist? Interview with Martin Fárek
1 Jun 2008
"Rethinking Religion in India": such was the topic of a conference that took place in New Delhi. In order to understand what is at stake, Religioscope conducted an interview with one of the participants at the conference, Dr. Martin Fárek.
Research: the Islamization of knowledge – Interview with Farid Alatas
2 Jan 2008
We hear more and more about 'Islamic science' and 'Islamic economics', and over recent decades, calls for an 'Islamization of knowledge' and for attempts to develop Islamic models for approaching modern science have increasingly been heard. What does this mean and what does it involve for current developments across the Muslim world? Religioscope put these questions to Prof. Farid Alatas.
Islam: from Taliban captive to Muslim feminist - Interview with Yvonne Ridley
28 Dec 2007
British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban, tells Asma Hanif that oppression of Muslim women has to do with traditions rather than with Islam and explains why she became a Muslim.
Lebanon: Hizbullah, a progressive Islamic party? - Interview with Joseph Alagha
17 May 2007
"Hizbullah is the result of a long historical process... Hizbullah is not a monolithic movement, but rather a coalition of Shi'ite clerics... Hizbullah is more than 25 years old. 'The future is ours', to quote Nasrallah, and from a demographic viewpoint, he is very likely to be right." - Prof. Joseph Alagha, who teaches a the Lebanese American University, shares his insights on Hizbullah.
From Swedenborg to the New Church - Interview with Jane Williams-Hogan
9 Jun 2006
"Swedenborg died in 1772. There were probably at that time four or five people who had read his works and felt that they were true. He never attempted to found a church and he never preached. He only wrote these books. It is fascinating that, in spite the fact he only wrote these books, by the year 1800 the books had literally been carried all over the world and had influenced large numbers of people." -- Jane Williams-Hogan answers our questions on Swedenborg and the religious movement based upon his message.
Women and Islamic Cultures: an ambitious academic project - Interview with Suad Joseph
20 Mar 2006
'An interdisciplinary, transhistorical, global project covering women and Islamic cultures' - this is how Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, describes her ambitious project. The author of several books, Prof. Joseph - a native of Lebanon - is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC).
Religion: analyst describes Europe's blasphemy laws - Interview with David Nash
2 Feb 2006
Fresh protests have broken out in parts of the Muslim world about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have appeared in European newspapers. The controversy has raised questions about what limits, if any, can be put on freedom of speech when it comes to religion. - Interview with David Nash, author of the upcoming book Blasphemy In The West and a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.
Jewish messianism and the settler movement after Gaza withdrawal - Interview with Gideon Aran
26 Nov 2005
Three months have passed since the evacuation by the Sharon government of all settlements in the Gaza strip. What are the consequences of this withdrawal for the Gush Emunim, “the settler movement”? What are the consequences of the withdrawal for the messianic doctrine of the movement? Religioscope has asked Gideon Aran, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and one of the best experts on the movement that he has covered for the last 20 years.
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