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Category - socially engaged Buddhism

  • 22 Jun 2011
    Japanese interfaith group joins protests over US bases

    A new interfaith group in Japan has joined local opposition to the United States' military presence on the southern island of Okinawa.

  • 19 May 2011
    World Buddhist meeting roots social action in faith

    Buddhists from as far afield as Lithuania and Uganda have met in Bangkok, promoting faith as a basis for action in social and economic development.

  • 3 Jun 2010
    Mysticism and resistance

    When religion is invoked as a reason to stand up against injustice, a cynic might say that religion really has nothing to do with it, that the people involved would have taken the same political action anyway. So does religion really have the power to be an effective force for social change? A brief look at mysticism can help us to answer this question.