Results for tag: Faith and Social Justice
Religious Ecology and Tree Discourse in Nigerian Pentecostalism
| Date: | 28 March 2024 |
| Author: | Francis Adebayo |
Tree discourse captures how humans name, characterise and relate to trees. In Africa, tree discourse is laden with religious and sacred meanings coterminous with a worldview that spirits inhabit spaces such as trees, stones, and water to mention a few....
Harnessing Local Traditional Beliefs in Environmental Advocacy and Peacebuilding: FORB Interventions in Indonesia and Kenya
| Date: | 07 March 2024 |
| Author: | Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen |
Freedom of Religion or Belief (FORB) interventions are geared to strengthen locally acknowledged traditional beliefs in environmental conservation and the development of holistic peacebuilding where knowledge and practice are co-created with indigenous...
The space for bias in the assessment of converted and apostate asylum seekers
| Date: | 22 January 2024 |
| Author: | Hannelore Schouwstra |
Fearing persecution because of belief
Migration policy has long worked as the non-psychical border of a state, through which one is allowed access into a process of exclusion or inclusion (Fossum & Olsen, 2021). An asylum seeker has to receive the status...