Berkley Center

Levi McLaughlin contends that in the post-Shinzo Abe age, we can expect Soka Gakkai and Komeito to remain pivotal forces and for religion, as a whole, to remain a potent force within Japanese politics.

Rohit Chopra argues that the Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi has radically altered the role and significance of its version of Hinduism in Indian public culture and established legitimacy for it abroad.

Mohammed Sinan Siyech describes how new calls for a Nepalese monarchy interspersed with a Hindu right-wing ideology mirror the calls of India’s right-wing groups for a Hindu rashtra (state) and urges a closer look at the impact of India’s right-wing ideology on the Nepali political landscape.