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Love, Power, and Justice: Reflections on Katongole’s Who Are My People?

Jason Springs
April 18, 2023May 23, 2023

In the portraitures that Katongole offers us justice is present, hovering over his exposition of the ‘violence of love and suffering’ . . . but it bears making this explicit, integrating, and developing further.

Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Mohammad H. Fadel
May 6, 2021January 27, 2024

Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.

Layering Patterns of Authority

Dairou Bouba, Tatiana Fouda, Cecelia Lynch and Nadine Machikou
November 27, 2018December 17, 2018

Any discussion of patterns and practices of authority within communities in Cameroon must take into account the relations of authority, intended or unintended, between these communities and outside actors, especially with the state, the humanitarian world of nongovernmental organizations, and with members of our research team.

“Faith-by-Birth”? Community and Religious Identity

Sydney Schlager
October 16, 2018

I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.

Introducing Who Are My People? An Interview with Emmanuel Katongole

Emmanuel Katongole and Kyle Lambelet
April 13, 2017June 26, 2018

CM Research Associate Kyle Lambelet sat down with ACI Africa working group leader Emmanuel Katongole to talk about his CM and Luce funded research project “Who Are My People?”: Christianity, Violence and Belonging in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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.

Women Strengthening Pluralist Co-Existence in Contemporary Indonesia: Analyzing the Role of Komnas Perempuan and the Koalisi Perempuan

Series: Women in Indonesia

Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta
June 2, 2016August 14, 2019

The battles these women had waged for legal, religious, economic, social, and other forms of equality since the 1980s had started to bear fruit; new opportunities had opened to women, and debates about their legal rights had reached the public press and political platforms.

Rebranding Islam: Public Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Making of “Moderate Islam”

Series: ACI proposal

James Hoesterey
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

During the years following 9/11, Indonesia’s foreign ministry promoted Indonesia as the model for “moderate Islam.”

Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Ivory Coast

Series: ACI proposal

Ludovic Lado
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic divide can be misleading.

The Battle for Meaning: Christians and Muslims at Odds over Indonesian Constitutionalism

Series: ACI proposal

Stefanus Hendrianto
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

The abortion debate in Indonesia is a fitting illustration of the global trend toward liberalization of access to abortion across the world. In Indonesia, this phenomenon cannot be separated from the constitutional reform that took place more than a decade ago. This phenomenon immediately raises a question of how Muslims and Christians will respond to the new notion of constitutionalism. Read the full article »

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