CRS Inter-Religious Action Archives | Contending Modernities

Bridging Ethnoreligious Divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Choosing Peace Together through Interreligious Action for Conflict Transformation

Atalia Omer
February 6, 2017February 23, 2017

The second Contending Modernities case study of recent Catholic Relief Services (CRS) inter-religious action programs highlights CRS’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This case addresses a number of vital conceptual issues, including questions of gender roles, religious literacy, and identity development in situations of conflict.

Interreligious Experiences, Catholic Umbrellas

Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action

Tom Bamat
December 9, 2016August 20, 2019

Is Catholic identity not an impediment to building bridges and social cohesion? Would it not be preferable to have secular, religiously “unattached” platforms and entry points?

CRS’s Inter-Religious Peacebuilding Programming: Reflections on Authority, Community, and Identity

Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action

Nell Bolton
November 30, 2016February 23, 2017

Nell Bolton of Catholic Relief Services offers analysis on how inter-religious action (IRA) intersects with some of the questions animating Contending Modernities, particularly those related to authority, community, and identity.

CRS: Lessons in Contemporary Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action

Garrett FitzGerald
October 25, 2016February 23, 2017

Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.

Promoting Interreligious Tolerance in Upper Egypt

Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action

Atalia Omer
October 14, 2016February 23, 2017

In Upper Egypt, escalating patterns of violence along religiocultural fault-lines can be explained in terms of societal separation.

United for Girls’ Rights: A Reflection

Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action

Atalia Omer
October 6, 2016February 23, 2017

Contending Modernities profiles Catholic Relief Service’s gender and development-focused Dialogue and Action Project (DAP) in the coastal region of Kenya.