Activating the Powers of Learning and Healing in Pursuit of a Fairer Future/World with Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo

November 7, 2022 0

Introduction by Ebenezer Bosomprah, Luce Graduate Fellow and PhD student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

African knowledge systems today are a product of many […]

Religious Women Constructing Modernity in Cameroon

July 26, 2017 0

In this post first published on the Contending Modernities blog, CIHA Blog Co-editor Dr. Cecelia Lynch discusses her new research project entitled “Gender, Authority and Community: Religious Women Constructing Modernity in […]

Are Africa’s ‘men of God’ preserving injustices against women?

June 21, 2017 0

In this post first published on The Conversation, CIHA Blog Co-Editor, Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo contributes to an ongoing CIHA Blog conversation about the power and authoritative role of churches […]

The spiritual is political: Blurring boundaries and challenging assumptions in religion and development

December 21, 2015 0

by Erin Wilson and Brenda Bartelink

Photo credit: Nikki Haze

Researchers at the CRCPD recently concluded a one-year NWO-funded pilot project exploring the entanglement of personal religious and spiritual transformation with […]

Track Changes: Asking Questions about Gendered Representations of Culture, Religion and Violence

March 16, 2015 0

In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]