CRCS Newsletter July 2018
About
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 July newsletter online here.
The July newsletter features notes from the CRCS intersession course Religion and Human Rights. There are also links to book and thesis reviews from CRCS students; a reflective essay on being a Jew in Indonesia from our outgoing Shansi English Fellow; a summary of Dr. Barbara Andaya’s presentation on Muslim Christian relations in the 17th Century; and the release of a TEDx talk by one of our faculty members.
July Highlights
Essays
- Being a Jew in Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Muslim-Christian interaction in 17th-century Southeast Asia
- TEDxUbud: How biodiversity and cultural diversity are inexorably linked
- The Cap Go Meh celebration in Tegal, Central Java
- How universal are human rights? (Indonesian)
- Plural justifications for human rights (Indonesian)
- Between multiculturalism, gender justice, and equality (Indonesian)
- Idul Fitri: On mercy and compassion