CRS: Lessons in Contemporary Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.
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Promoting Interreligious Tolerance in Upper Egypt
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
In Upper Egypt, escalating patterns of violence along religiocultural fault-lines can be explained in terms of societal separation.
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Women Strengthening Pluralist Co-Existence in Contemporary Indonesia: Analyzing the Role of Komnas Perempuan and the Koalisi Perempuan
Series: Women in Indonesia
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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Rebranding Islam: Public Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Making of “Moderate Islam”
Series: ACI proposal
During the years following 9/11, Indonesia’s foreign ministry promoted Indonesia as the model for “moderate Islam.”
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Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Ivory Coast
Series: ACI proposal
Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic divide can be misleading.
Read More →The Battle for Meaning: Christians and Muslims at Odds over Indonesian Constitutionalism
Series: ACI proposal
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 »
Read More →ACI Africa – Pentecostal Pastors and the Crisis of Political Authority in Africa
Series: ACI proposal
Since January of this year, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Nigeria has hosted Divine Encounter and Shiloh Hour, a special monthly ministration and prayer service, in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT). April’s version of Divine Encounter took place in the city’s 60,000 capacity National Stadium complex against a backdrop of a prolonged fuel scarcity that virtually crippled social life and economic activities across the country. Read the full article »
Read More →Introducing ACI Africa
In its broad conception the Authority, Community, and Identity (ACI) Research project is about Africa’s complex modernities. Modernity is not one thing (see, for example, Eisentadt’s multiple modernities thesis). African individuals and communities find themselves at the intersection of multiple modern, global, local, traditional, secular and religious forces. Read the full article »
Read More →Introducing ACI Indonesia
After a careful process of selecting the core research team, the Contending Modernities Authority, Community, and Identity (ACI) working group on Indonesia formally launched last year to begin a three-year research project to better understand the complex issues facing plural societies and to foster possible collaborations among various actors, religious and secular, at different levels: local and global, individuals and communities. Read the full article »
Read More →The Un-Dutchable Challenge of Pluralism
In recent years pluralist co-existence has been pushed to the center of political and social discussion in the Netherlands, as once “received” understandings of integration, including various models of multiculturalism, are called into question. For Dutch society, otherwise known for its pragmatism and tolerance, the path forward to a more effective pluralist co-existence remains uncertain. Read the full article »
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