A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. Responding…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
Efforts to address domestic violence in religious communities are not new. Numerous initiatives by academics, practitioners and religious believers have emerged that recognise the need for a close engagement with religious beliefs and religious personnel, historically neglected in the secular…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
Within the sector of domestic violence, the question of evaluation and effectiveness is central. Despite the existence of a wide array of interventions and programmes, how effectiveness is to be measured given difference designs, methodologies and approaches in the sector…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
The scholarship that examines clergy engagement in domestic violence interventions is extensive. Despite nuanced evidence, the scholarship generally agrees that clergy are generally influential and well-positioned to respond to domestic violence in religious communities, but often lack understanding of how…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
“Faith and Development in Focus: Tanzania” was inspired by the unique social, political, and economic successes and challenges facing the country at present. Religious institutions have long played central roles in peoples’ lives and in efforts to provide basic services…
Published: 2019
Author:Luisa Banchoff, Katherine Marshall, Lauren Herzog, and Wilma Mui
The Philippines is a deeply religious society, and institutions and beliefs permeate social, economic, and political institutions. Religious actors are thus deeply engaged in development, from debates and ideas about directions to politics and on the ground implementation. A large…
Published: 2019
Author:Kathryn Marshall, Micah Musser, and Luisa Banchof
Religious organizations have an important role in development aid. For a long time, this role was not acknowledged by the main players in the development arena, but this has changed over the last few decades. Yet, this role is not…
Published: 2020
Author:Elco van Burg
What constitutes a polylogue? What, in our pandemic times, makes for a meaningful gathering? Of the many and varied things affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, religiosity is one that has certainly garnered attention. How are individuals and communities adapting spiritual…
Published: 2021
Author:Amjad Saleem, John A. Sweeney, Jean Hon, Saeed A. Khan, Wei Ling Low, and Zarina Nalla
Much has been written about WHO. Relatively little is known, however, about the organisation’s evolving relationship with health-related personal beliefs, ‘faith-based organisations’ (FBOs), religious leaders and religious communities (‘religious actors’). This article presents findings from a 4-year research project on…
Published: 2021
Author:Fabian Winiger, Simon Peng-Keller
This Working Paper discusses inequalities caused or exacerbated by religious diversity in displacement and how humanitarian action can be aware of and responsive to this. It is based on interviews with Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan and local, national and…
Published: 2022
Author:Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Maryam Kanwer, Jaffer Abbas Mirza
The Baha'i International Community and the United Nations The book, Rethinking Religion and Politics in a Plural World: The Baha'i International Community and the United Nations (Bloomsbury 2021), looks at the ideas and concepts guiding religious NGOs in the international…
Published: 2021
Author:Julia Berger
Dr. Olivia Wilkinson, JLI Director of Research, presented at the USAID summit on October 6, 2020 in applying secular-religious understanding to a humanitarian response.
Published: 2020
Author:Olivia Wilkinson
The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. Without doubt, many people remember that religious services, especially…
Published: 2021
Author:Alexander Yendell, Oliver Hidalgo, Carolin Hillenbrand
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