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Religious Women Constructing Modernity in Cameroon

Cecelia Lynch and Tatiana Fouda
July 21, 2017

How do religious women in Cameroon navigate their faith vis-à-vis their communities and religious hierarchies?

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Empowering Democratic Policy-Making: The Indonesian Women’s Coalition

Series: Women in Indonesia
Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta
June 8, 2017July 9, 2017

Aisha, the wife of the prophet, protected and physically made space for transgender persons to pray behind her. As such, LGBT groups are assured protection.

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The Ambivalence of Modernity Seen from Abidjan

Ludovic Lado
May 15, 2017October 18, 2017

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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Brand Islam: Response to Reviewers

Series: Brand Islam
Faegheh Shirazi
March 15, 2017March 15, 2017

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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Gender, National Identity, And Nation-Building: Komnas Perempuan & Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia

Series: Women in Indonesia
Nelly van Doorn-Harder
January 25, 2017August 20, 2019

  June 2016 was a good month for Komnas Perempuan (Komnas), the National Commission on Violence against Women, an independent…

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Is Christianity Bad for Women?

Dania Straughan
November 2, 2016January 27, 2024

The short answer, according to the panel, is no. But the conversation left many stones unturned.

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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.

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Fighting Transphobia: Analyzing the Pakistani Fatwa on Transgender Marriage

Ali Altaf Mian
August 8, 2016January 27, 2024

Retaining, reconfiguring, and renouncing traditional embodiments of sex, gender, and sexuality. Read the full article »

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From London to Rome: Changing the Conversation about Religion

Series: Rome 2016
Atalia Omer
June 27, 2016July 28, 2017

ATALIA OMER

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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Democracy Blues: Reflections from Rome 2016

Series: Rome 2016
Katherine Marshall
June 21, 2016August 14, 2019

We must root our analysis in the actual dilemmas encountered in practice…

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