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Religions, Volume 10, Issue 12

December 2019 - 30 articles

Cover Story: ‘Risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard element of project design, including in the relatively new discipline and practice of ‘Religious Peacebuilding’. This means that organizations increasingly attempt to understand the associated risks to projects with a religious dimension often without any specific guidelines, and in many cases, any relevant knowledge or previous experience of working with religious actors in peacebuilding. Consequently, the primary objective of this paper is to propose the first risk assessment framework for peacebuilding projects which explicitly focuses on religious dimensions and actors. The framework is based on an analysis of case studies and project evaluations from a number of contexts and has the potential to make a tangible difference to the efficacy and impact of peacebuilding projects in a variety of post-conflict contexts. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,051 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2019

Pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) is a complex thinker whose political and theological views range from the illiberal to the radical, defying easy categorization within the binaries of contemporary politics. In this article, I examine the influence of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,463 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2019

Despite the growing popularity of vegetarian foods and diets, the vast majority of people in North America and other parts of the affluent world still eat meat. This article explores what ordinary people think about eating animals and how they naviga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,899 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2019

The Tamil Dalit Pentecostal conversion movement that has been active in Chennai’s slums and low-income settlements for the last four decades is also a political movement. It is, moreover, a women’s political movement. Normally both Dalits...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,916 Views
11 Pages

12 December 2019

This article will summarize and interpret archaeological data that may be used to illuminate the religion of ancient Israel, ca. 1200–600 BCE, while using a phenomenal approach. The resultant portrait will be compared with one drawn from the te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,044 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2019

The effort expended by religious groups in Ghana to access and influence political power is not a historic novelty. Most clearly manifested in organizational strategies and the pronouncements of religious leaders, sectional ambitions in respect of po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,760 Views
6 Pages

6 December 2019

In this response essay, I consider Jon Keune’s proposal to prioritize the act of comparison over definitional agreement when beginning an exercise in comparative hagiology. Reflecting on my own experience as the respondent for a panel at the 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,101 Views
13 Pages

6 December 2019

I argue that by participating in religious cultural phenomena, the protagonists of Xu Dishan’s and Su Xuelin’s fiction cultivate values that allow them to overcome their sense of social alienation by making them feel more confident about...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,513 Views
16 Pages

Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP)

  • Alison Scott-Baumann,
  • Alyaa Ebbiary,
  • Shams Ad Duha Mohammad,
  • Safiyya Dhorat,
  • Shahanaz Begum,
  • Hasan Pandor and
  • Julia Stolyar

5 December 2019

The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) addresses three key issues in the narrative of Muslim communal identity and religious leadership in Britain today: firstly, the need for the accreditation of Darul Ulooms (Muslim seminaries) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,575 Views
19 Pages

4 December 2019

Grappling with the marginalization of the marginal in Western thinking, this paper sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy and Johann Baptist Metz’s political theology in order to learn from their thoughts on the sufferin...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444