Religious Freedom in the Middle East: Reflecting “Ecclesia in Medio Oriente 26”

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Mar Paul Matar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Freedom

scholarly journals Christian Witness in the Middle East

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Wilbert van Saane
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Christian Witness

This contribution discusses the reception to and relevance of ‘Christian witness in a multi-religious world’ in the Middle East. After a brief survey of the reception and some comments on the Arabic translation of the document, it argues that the guidelines offered in ‘Christian witness’ are especially relevant with regard to intra-Christian proselytism, relief and development work, and religious freedom and conversion.

Introduction to the Special IBMR Issue on the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Gina A. Zurlo ◽  
Todd M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Geographic Locations ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Core Part

Forty years ago, David B. Barrett, then based in Nairobi, Kenya, put the finishing touches on the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia. A second edition was produced in 2001, and now a third edition is in circulation, prepared between 2015 and 2019. This special issue of the IBMR reflects a core part of the methodology of the World Christian Encyclopedia, namely, interaction with World Christianity from different disciplinary perspectives and geographic locations. This introduction to the issue features reflection on articles on global Catholicism, missions, women and gender studies, religious freedom, Christianity in the Middle East, and refugees.

scholarly journals Oil, Islam, and the Middle East: An Empirical Analysis of the Repression of Religion, 1980–2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Albertsen ◽  
Indra de Soysa
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Conditional Effect ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Oil Wealth ◽  
Institutional Legacies ◽  
Intervening Factors

AbstractThere is a lively debate on the relative impacts of Islam, oil wealth, and Middle Eastern institutional legacies regarding democratization and the spread of liberal values. We examine this issue using religious repression. We argue that oil-wealthy rulers use religious monopoly to control dissent. Our results show that oil wealth increases religious repression above the effects of Muslim dominance and a host of sundry controls. The Middle East and North Africa region seems to matter more than Islam. Interestingly, the conditional effect of oil and the Middle East and North Africa region is positive on religious freedom. The data suggest that several Gulf monarchies have more religious freedoms than other Muslim dominant states, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, or even Israel and Jordan. The worst religious repression is among oil producers in Central Asia. The results are robust to a host of intervening factors, different measures of oil wealth, alternative data on religious freedom, and estimating method.

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