BBC
Five days of pitched battles between thousands of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese villagers in Henan province left at least seven people dead, the latest in a series of large-scale confrontations that have come to light in recent weeks.
Often hidde… more »
Category: "religion cosmology"
Asia Times
BANGKOK - Though southern Thailand's ethnic-Malay Muslims are drawing closer together in the face of heavy-handed government tactics to quash a simmering separatist insurgency, religion is splitting them as Islamic fundamentalists, or refor… more »
The University of Chicago Press
An interview with anthropologist Jonah Blank, author of Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. The Daudi Bohras are a unique denomination of Indian Muslims, with a worldwide population num… more »
The New York Times
Facing increased discrimination after the Sept. 11 attacks, New York City's Muslims have identified more deeply with their religious roots, setting aside the sectarian and linguistic differences that have traditionally divided them… more »
Nepalnews.com
Professor Dr. RISHIKESHAB RAJ REGMI – who teaches anthropology at the Tribhuwan University - is a well known anthropologist of Nepal:
"The event of September 1 was very mysterious. The people who attacked mosque and Muslims are not Ne… more »
by lorenz on Sep 6, 2004 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, Asia, globalisation, migration • 1 comment »
Nepal News
With the increase in the population, Kathmandu valley's dynamics and structures of population have changed. New migrant families are coming up and the structures of old families are transforming from extended ones to nucleus. The family rel… more »
by lorenz on Sep 1, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Saami, Arctic / Northern Regions
AP / Yahoo News
Nearly 400 years after the worst of the Norwegian witch trials ripped through the area, approximately 100 people have made their way to the small town of Vardoe, just over 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from the North Pole, for norther… more »
by lorenz on Aug 29, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, Latin- and Central America
RICHARD N. OSTLING, The Associated Press
The Missions Institute of New Tribes Mission specializes in evangelism among the 3,000 indigenous groups in the world’s remotest tracts, places that remain isolated from the outside world and thus untouched by… more »
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