Results for tag: Religion and Identity
Religious Empowerment and LGBTQ+ identities: Contradiction or Harmony?
| Date: | 30 September 2024 |
| Author: | Lukáลก Chronc |
The problem of acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community within secular society has been a controversial one, intensified by the empowerment movements of the late 20th century. The constant contradictions within especially conservative religions, make the...
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...
Once upon a time, there was a princess and a priest...
| Date: | 12 February 2024 |
| Author: | Kim Knibbe |
Last Sunday, I went into the centre of the town of Maastricht with my family to celebrate Carnaval and watch the ‘Bonte Storm’ (the colourful storm, as big parade on Sunday is called). We walked slowly, often stopping to admire a group with particularly...
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...