CRCS Newsletter September 2017

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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 September newsletter online here.

September Highlights

• Religious and indigenous communities band together to save rainforests
• Have the Adat communities been autonomus enough?
• CRCS report on increasing threats to Indonesia’s academic freedom
• The myth of religion’s tendency towards violence
• The Rohingya tragedy and the discourse on religious violence
• The politics of “religious harmony” under Aceh’s Qanun
• “Defamation of religion” and local dynamics in Balikpapan
• Call for Applications: Diversity Management School
• Event: CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum