Religion Archives - Red Pepper

French politics: right questions, wrong answers

Siobhan McGuirk — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:38:47 +0000

The French left is as responsible as President Macron and the right for the rise of the National Rally, argues Yasser Louati

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9/11, Prevent, Palestine: two decades of rising Islamophobia

Gerry Hart — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Asim Qureshi reports on Red Pepper’s role in documenting the spiralling violence of the global ‘war on terror’

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Ram Rajya 2.0: Nostalgia, cinema and Indian nationalism

Gerry Hart — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 07:00:47 +0000

Priya Chacko and Maggie Paul explore how historic and religious popular culture uses nostalgia to further Hindu nationalist agendas – a process known as ‘saffronisation’

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Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia – review

Ananya Bhattacharya — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 08:00:57 +0000

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's book does not shy away from vital connections between Islamophobia and the forces of global capitalism, writes Farzana Khan

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Morality tales

Gerry Hart — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:00:19 +0000

From cowardly men to wayward wives, pre-modern superstitions transmitted social norms as well as scares, writes Eleanor Janega

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The cauldron, the sword, victory!

Jake Woodier — Mon, 31 May 2021 07:00:39 +0000

Langar has always gone hand in hand with Sikh revolution writes Shamsher Singh

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Shaheen Bagh lives on

Kimon Daltas — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The women of a south Delhi neighbourhood have inspired a protest movement which will long outlive their temporary encampment, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

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Four myths about antisemitism

redpepper — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:00:47 +0000

Antisemitism is a growing threat. Understanding it is a matter of urgency for everybody, writes Barnaby Raine

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Papal bull

redpepper — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:58:42 +0000

The left should praise the Lord for the Pope, says Terry Eagleton. The Catholic church is the best recruiting sergeant we could hope for

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Hizbullah: Home-grown in Lebanon

redpepper — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:44:56 +0000

Responding to the discussion on political Islam begun in the previous issue of Red Pepper, Bilal El-Amine considers the experience of Hizbullah in Lebanon

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