Iselin Frydenlund

Prof of Religious Studies, tweets about Buddhism and politics, current developments in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and global islamophobia

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if anything, it proved to me that we honor King’s dream, by daring to dream big, and by, most importantly, daring to dream together. Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us. What a worthwhile, powerful calling only we can answer. Here with you in the hill and the climb, and whatever light lies beyond, whatever light lies within.
-Amanda

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

This is a really great choice by the Nobel committee!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

#NobelPrize

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation - New Mandala https://t.co/bV0QBbXtCF via @newmandala

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation - New Mandala https://t.co/kKUD5GN4qO via @newmandala

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

#ERSMostRead

One of our #MostReadArticles at the moment is @bganesh11, @IselinFryd & @BrekkeTorkel'sa 2023 Editorial 'Flows and modalities of global Islamophobia'. It acts as an introduction to our Special Issue on Global Islamophobia.

You can read the introduction here: https://t.co/3miN4Bec9F

[C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) @CrexUiO]

A Burning Affair - A New Special Issue on the Burning of the Qur’an in Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion, edited by Göran Larsson, @IselinFryd and @CrexUiO research leader @BrekkeTorkel https://t.co/Fgt0WhN7gq

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

Article alert! What is the role of Buddhism in the Myanmar Spring Revolution? Read more here:
https://t.co/BSGLARS1Wh

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

New Special Issue out on Quran burnings in the Nordic region, for the INTERSECT research project https://t.co/4JCFMxRnhg

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

So happy that our Special Issue on Global Flows of Islamophobia is finally out! #islamophobia
@bganesh11 , @BrekkeTorkel, @davidstroup, @edinkozaric, @CrexUiO
https://t.co/RFYphq4hq5

[Rest of World @restofworld]

India’s ruling party has deployed an app that collect workers’ and voters’ identifying information, name, address, and photo, as well as demographic indicators such as religion, caste, and profession. One party leader calls it an election winning machine
https://t.co/FJHB8Kdc8h

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

#ERSNew 🐣

In this Guest Editorial, @bganesh11, @IselinFryd, and @BrekkeTorkel propose a framework of flows and modalities to understand #Islamophobia across the world and develop a transnational perspective on Islamophobia that challenges Western-centric approaches. @CrexUiO

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

@ricgreene @UDLA_CL @historysunny @kingshistory @SocStudiesShef @MCRSociology @EthnicityUK @chiara_denaro @Unibo @UniTrento @SPeterWade @UoMAnthropology @UEK_Krakow Guest Editorial: Flows and Modalities of Global #Islamophobia

Authors: @bganesh11, @IselinFryd, and @BrekkeTorkel
@CrexUiO

Coming soon!

#Identity #racialization #Globalization

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

#ERSNew #OpenAccess 🐣 🔓

@IselinFryd examines Buddhist #Islamophobia, arguing that it needs to be understood as a constituent element of global Islamophobia(s), and moreover, that it cannot be reduced to being the result of Western export of Islamophobia globally. (1/2)

[Iselin Frydenlund @IselinFryd]

@arjupskas @Aftenposten Viktig kronikk! Takk.

[C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) @CrexUiO]

Befolkningens syn på #22juli har endret seg, skriver nestleder ved @CrexUiO, @arjupskas i @Aftenposten https://t.co/MkwhkqTVk1

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Yuval Hariri reminds us that Israel has no checks or balances on its extremist government -- no constitution, no senate, no federal structure -- other than the Supreme Court. If Netanyahu succeeds in undermining the court's independence, he will be on a path to "dictatorship."

[CRPH Myanmar @CrphMyanmar]

Like Ukrainians, #Myanmar's people are courageous, spirited and united, and willing to make great sacrifice in their fight for democracy. Unlike #Ukrainians , they are not receiving the kind of assistance that could help shorten a war of liberation .....

https://t.co/WBp540ULjX

[Uyghur Guy @KuzzatAltay]

Sweden is widely condemned in the “Muslim World” for “Allowing” the burning of the Quran.

Hey, “Muslim World,” China is not only destroying mosques and burning Quran, China is burning the Uyghur Muslims alive.

Did anyone of you condemn China for the Uyghur Genocide?