CRCS Newsletter May 2019
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The Center, in its partnership with the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, is proud to feature CRCS’ new newsletter. The monthly-published issues will be featured in the CSEAS newsletter and highlighted here on our website. Check out our Religion & Diversity Initiative page to see more publications from CRCS.
Read the May newsletter online here.
This month’s newsletter features reflections on Indonesia’s post-election landscape, a brief history of Indonesian Confucianism, and an essay responding to the recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. We are also pleased to announce that in July CRCS will hold a conference on indigenous religions and a fellowship program on freedom of religion or belief. Applications for these two programs are due this month.
Highlights
- International conference on indigenous religions (English)
- Fellowship on freedom of religion or belief (Indonesian)
- 2019 Elections as non-violent channels for ex-jihadists’ aspirations (Indonesian)
- ‘Quick Count Sorcery’ and post-election war narratives (Indonesian)
- The struggle for state recognition of Confucian believers in Indonesia (English)
- Interfaith group in Sri Lanka responds to recent terrorist attacks (Indonesian)
- CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum