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Publications by Subject:  

war, ethnic/religious violence   

Iraq's Sunni Clergy Enter the Fray, Religion in the News, Winter 2005, by Eric Davis.
Sunni Arab clerics are surprise players in the insurgency.

Keeping the Shi'ites Straight, Religion in the News, Summer 2003, by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh.
Journalists struggles to grasp the history and politics of Iraqi Shi'ism.

Religion on the International News Agenda, 2000
[144-page volume (Acrobat .pdf file)], edited by Mark Silk

"Kashmiri Muslims Caught in the Middle", Religion in the News, Summer 2002. By Dipankar Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The quandary of Kashmir’s secular freedom fighters in an age of holy wars.

"The Civil Religion Goes to War", Religion in the News, Fall 2001, [Presidential rhetoric and civil religion in times of national crisis], by Mark Silk, editor

"Palestinians and Israelis: Oh, Jerusalem!", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [anxieties about losing control of the Temple Mount pervade Israeli discussion of the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" and the dimmed prospects for peace], by Yoel Cohen, Netanya College, Israel

"Palestinians and Israelis: Rites of Return", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [the Arab media’s new emphasis on the Palestinians’ "sacred right of return" to Israel bridges an internal religious division], by Rachel Stroumsa, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

"Wars of Religion", Religion in the News, Spring 2000, [religion in ethnic conflict], by Mark Silk, editor

"Religious Ironies in East Timor", Religion in the News, Spring 2000, [complex role of religion in East Timor conflict, violence], by Robert W. Hefner, Boston University