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The boundaries between secularism, democracy, pluralism, and religious diversity cannot easily be demarcated. Bringing democratic and secular values together with religious pluralism, accommodating different religious communities, and acknowledging individual rights is a great challenge for many societies. In parallel, religious education (RE) in state schools has been a controversial and unresolved issue. On both sides of Cyprus, RE is organized in a mono-confessional way: while the Christian Orthodox content of RE is linked with Greek national identity in the Greek Cypriot South, Sunni Islamic RE is linked with the Turkish national identity in the Turkish Cypriot North. On both sides of the island, the compulsory and mono-confessional characters of RE, as well as the national curricula and textbooks that are used, are a source of conflict. Within this context, this article explores the way RE (Orthodox Christian, Sunni Islamic) is organized in Cyprus and to what extent this may lead to an infringement of the freedom of religion and freedom of education.

"Who are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her. These experiences showed her that the meaning of "belonging" to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity"--

The involvement of the local Islamic boarding school (Pesantren) elite in a regional head election in East Java becomes the winning determiner. In a direct local election, elite religious roles significantly influence the constituent's vote. The elite utilizes religious hegemony in increasing society's political participation during an election. The era of new religious movement changes the tendencies of the thinking paradigm that, for the first time, women emerge as regional heads. This paper was aimed to analyze the hegemony of the religious elite based on Pesantren in the postmodernism era in regional head elections, especially in East Java. This research used qualitative research with a descriptive perspective and content analysis of qualitative data, which revealed that there is hegemony and patron-client movement of Islamic boarding school (Pesantren) among kyai, students, alumni, sympathizers, and Pesantren communities as a strategy to win regional head. The researcher used the elite theory approach and political participation theory—research data obtained from the library and document analysis from the affiliated institution. The formulation of this problem is how the religious elite hegemony the societies by increasing public participation and convincing voters to vote for women's candidates as governor. The analysis result remarks the hegemony of the religious elite becomes a tool to obtain power in a regional head election because there are significant influences of religious elite functioning giving dogmatize to society through religious routines ritual such as religion speech.

The assertion that editorial cartoons do not just mirror politics, but are also themselves a part of the political struggle by the state, media, & social movements to influence the interpretive processes by which individuals negotiate the meanings of the bands is investigated in an analysis of the editorial cartoons in Turkish daily newspapers. Focusing on secularism & Islamism as a political project that seeks to transform & reinstitute the sociopolitical border on the basis of constituted norms is contextualized in a historical narrative that begins with the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The defense of secularism by a pro-state secularist & a mainstream secular Turkish daily newspaper consider it to be an indispensable element of the sociopolitical structure, as well as the exclusion of religion from public life & national identity. The editorial cartoons in these newspapers usually depict the Other with restricted symbols to show an incapability of responding to the needs of society. Comparative analysis of the use of cartooning in a newspaper owned by a moderate religious group identifies a kaleidoscopic, multiple meaning perspective accorded to the reader. The high level of sophistication has been a source of complaints, but a departure from the overt message displayed in the secular media is maintained. The competing frames of the reproduction of the Turkish political context through Turkish editorial cartoons is concluded to be best viewed as modernist projects in which both sides enter into a struggle to apply their projects to the state & society, as well as to make their identities acceptable for a broader community. References. J. Harwell