In light of the recent murders in Atlanta, which targeted persons of Asian descent, the SSME Board wishes to make a statement explicitly condemning hate speech and violence against Asian Americans. In the last year the U.S.  has witnessed broader patterns of discrimination and violence against Asian Americans, and an estimated 3,800 incidents have been… Continue reading SSME Comments on Racism and Discrimination in Recent Times

ReOrient is a new peer reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of Critical Muslim Studies. It is published by Pluto Journals. The journal is a sustained collective thought experiment that seeks to explore the consequences of producing knowledge that is no longer organized around the axis of West and non-West. For more information and to submit… Continue reading ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies

Dear SSME Members: In the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at this week’s meeting of the World Zionist Congress, the folks at Wiley-Blackwell have kindly consented to our request to make the following two articles from JRE 43.4 freely available online for the next month: Michael A. Sells, “Holocaust Abuse: The Case of Hajj Muhammad… Continue reading Letter to SSME Members

The Human Rights and Global Justice Research Group at Wake Forest University invites paper proposals for a conference on the broad topic of Religion, Violence, and Peace April 9-11, 2015 Winston-Salem, North Carolina Deadline proposals: December 15, 2014 Our chief aim is to bring together multi-disciplinary scholars working on the topic of religion, violence, and… Continue reading Call for Paper Proposals on the Broad Topic of Religion, Violence, and Peace