COVID-19 and Pentecostals in Africa

Blog | March 30, 2020

By Jörg Haustein As Africa steps up preventative measures against COVID-19, Pentecostals are offering their own protections: “I want to assure you that there is […]

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Is French Laïcité State Atheism or Religious Freedom? An Interview with Eric Germain

Blog | March 17, 2020

The French minister of the armed forces recently launched a new, revised edition of a report on military secularism that demonstrates that a high degree […]

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What can we Learn from the Religion Policy of the US Occupation of Japan? An Interview with Jolyon Thomas

Blog | January 28, 2020

“My account in the following pages is not presentist, but it does have messages for readers today.” So says Jolyon Thomas in the prologue to […]

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Creating the Tools Governments Need to Promote FoRB for All: An Interview with Katherine Cash

Blog | January 20, 2020

One of the key barriers to the advancement of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is widespread ignorance—or misperception—of what this human right actually entails. […]

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Introducing Religion & Diplomacy

Blog | January 9, 2019

Welcome to Religion & Diplomacy. This new website intends to provide insightful original content and serve as a portal to the wealth of online resources […]

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Tobias Cremer Discusses Christianity and the Far Right on BBC Radio

Blog | December 7, 2018

On Monday 3rd December Religion & Diplomacy assistant editor Tobias Cremer discussed the uses of Christianity by the far right in Europe on the BBC Radio 4 […]

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Consigned to the Past: The Medieval, the Modern, and the Religious ‘Other’

Blog | July 9, 2018

As the violence of the so-called Islamic State drew widespread public attention, Barack Obama at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in February 2015 compared […]

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