Zainal Abidin Bagir

Zainal Abidin Bagir is the Director of the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, a Master’s program at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University (www.crcs.ugm.ac.id). He is also the Indonesian Regional Coordinator of Pluralism Knowledge Programme, which is a collaborative project involving India, Indonesia, Uganda and the Netherlands. (www.hivos.net/pluralism) The Programme involves research on local practices of pluralism and publication of Annual Report on Indonesian Religious Life. He can be contacted at zainbagir@ugm.ac.id or zainbagir@gmail.com.

On equal terms, please

‘American policy makers should understand religion better and engage with religious communities abroad’ argues the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Zainal Abidin Bagir responds to the report's co-author R. Scott Appleby.

By Zainal Abidin Bagir

/ 5 Oct 2010