Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Modernity is embraced for its scientific and technological wonders, but is also associated with moral decline especially with regard to family and sexual ethics.
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Designer clothing brands that cater to Muslim consumers in the Middle East have mushroomed, in spite of the fact that some of this clothing is manufactured in Muslim-unfriendly countries.
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June 2016 was a good month for Komnas Perempuan (Komnas), the National Commission on Violence against Women, an independent…
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The short answer, according to the panel, is no. But the conversation left many stones unturned.
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Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.
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Retaining, reconfiguring, and renouncing traditional embodiments of sex, gender, and sexuality. Read the full article »
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The conference “Making Democracy One’s Own: Muslim, Catholic and Secular Perspectives in Dialogue on Democracy, Development, and Peace” (Rome, May 30-June 1, 2016) sought to strengthen and intervene in theorizing the question of religion and democracy.
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We must root our analysis in the actual dilemmas encountered in practice…
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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.
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Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic divide can be misleading.
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