Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

Nations across South Asia are currently witnessing unprecedented violence linked to religion, making many people wonder about the reasons for the upsurge. One noticeable fact, seemingly unlinked to ...

The same thing is happening in Asia. By nature, Asians seek peace and truth. That’s why, when European expeditions were ...

As of 2020, the Asia-Pacific region is home to 4.5 billion people, 10% more than in 2010. This large and religiously diverse region – where no single religious group constitutes a majority of the ...

Southern Asia Studies also offers funding opportunities for incoming graduate students in Masters and PhD programs, as well as research travel and conference travel grants for current students in the ...

Most people know that the Virgin Mary is very popular among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. But what they usually don't know is that the Mother of God is also venerated by devotees from other faiths ...

"Short texts in faiths and philosophies" : p. 553-645. Master microform held by: DLC. SHORT STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS MICROFORM EMBRACING ALL THE RELIGIONS OF ASIA BY ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

A mandate entrusted to over 800 delegates to make Jesus present through their lives in their own countries brought to a close ...

One of Asia’s largest international Catholic gatherings in nearly two decades opened in Malaysia’s Penang state on November ...