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... language of the secular state. The Ga community defended the ritual ban as a cultural heritage protected under customary law and Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians insisted on their constitutional right to religion. Although in practice the label of culture allowed the Ga community more freedom to impose...

... on drumming, this section also highlights the gaps the book fills in scholarship on religion and sound, secularism and secularity, culture and religion, religious pluralism, and human rights, focusing especially on the importance of recentering traditional religions as visible actors in modern African...

...,” it highlights how the emergent political technology of risk management combines modern, liberal ideals of rights, citizenship, and freedom with other enduring forms of sociality, such as kinship, patronage, and religion. Based on daily interactions between government officials and this program’s beneficiaries...

..., but it came to include a long-simmering concern with whether morality needs religion. As for the followers of many other religions, the experience of the divine became more important than creedal formulations about divinity. Yet it was a time when faith was strengthened and regrounded, and when many...

... This chapter follows khwaja sira-trans engagements with the transnational Islamic missionary Tablighi Jamaʿat, which has risen in visibility alongside Pakistan's transgender rights movements (2009-) entailing repentance on the NGO-madrassa circuit, through to couplings of preaching and dancing...

... to include. Thus the Haitian slaves answered the call of the French revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen even though it was never intended for them. The leaders of the anticolonial movements similarly responded to a call for self-determination put out by Wilson but he was manifestly...

... the story of organizing the civil rights movement in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the choices that had to be made in developing an ethic of protest. It is a story of street protests, boycotts, and confrontation with the state troopers and the local Ku Klux Klan, but is also the story of intense debate...

... down what they believed to be the central tenets of Christian faith, but it came to include a long-simmering concern with whether morality needs religion. As for the followers of many other religions, the experience of the divine became more important than creedal formulations about divinity. Yet...

... which we examine the universe at the crossroads of Sharia panic, sex panic, and security panic This chapter examines the gendering of the global security agenda as women's rights advocates and governance feminists in the 21st century clamored for inclusion in initiatives to Counter/Prevent Violent...

... and practices that have recast governmentality, development, humanitarianism, and even human rights, in line with post-9/11 global security regimes. The chapter identifies four dynamic political and institutional circuits that codified GBVAW inhabits, traverses, consolidates, and animates: securitization; state...

... The book closes with a reflective return to the 1980s to consider more deeply the transnational connections that undergird the antiapartheid movement. The tenants of Christianity sometimes clandestinely connected civil rights leaders, historically Black college students, and even progressive...

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... sharia politics Peoples Democratic Party 1999 Constitution sharia and women’s rights Fourth Republic ...