When the war broke out in 1948, their grandmother and her family, the Alkoors, were forcibly displaced from their home, unable to ever return. Their fate was the same as 750,000 Palestinian families, ...

One of the saddest episodes of religious fanaticism intersecting with politics was reported in Pennsylvania recently where a family of three died in an apparent suicide pact. Morgan Daub, 26, and her ...

Changing global sociopolitical equations have increased the hostility that Christian communities face in Asia more than ever before. The combined effects of religious fanaticism, narrow political ...

NIGERIA, often described as the “Giant of Africa,” is a country rich in cultural diversity and natural resources. However, since gaining political independence from British colonial rule in 1960, ...

Alberto Toscano is a sociologist from Goldsmiths College, London, and author of Fanaticism: On the uses of an idea. In this email interview, SHIFT asks him why understanding the history of the term ...

“A book that changed my mind: ‘The Screwtape Letters’ ” by Liza Libes (Ideas, June 29) caught my attention, in particular her line near the end: “I’ve come to appreciate the moral architecture that ...