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, 2018 This chapter discusses the issue of female religious authority within Western Muslim communities in light of the growing gender consciousness in the West over the past several decades and the influence of Western liberal democracies and exposure to intellectual feminist currents on Muslim thought.
Duderija, Adis, Rane, Halim
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Introduction: Alternative Islamic Discourse andreligious Authority
, 2013 Like anywhere else, the present-day Islamic world too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are raising questions about religious representations and authority.
Kersten, Carool,, Olsson, Susanne,
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Religious pluralism and conflict as issues in religious education in Uganda [PDF]
, 2003 This study investigates the complications raised in teaching a confessional Religious Education in a multi-religious context pertaining in Ugandan religiously founded public schools, government and private founded schools. The thesis contends that the
Mwesigwa, Fred Sheldon
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Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership: The Case of Australian Mosques
Religions, 2022 In the history of all religions, there has been a male monopoly over religious leadership. In most Muslim societies in particular, men have enjoyed indisputable authority over religious leadership roles in the spaces of worship and communal gatherings ...
Nafiseh Ghafournia
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Mixed Blessing:Market-mediated Religious Authority in Neopaganism [PDF]
, 2016 This research explores how marketplace dynamics affect religious authority in the context of Neopagan religion. Drawing on an interpretivist study of Wiccan practitioners in Italy, we reveal that engagement with the market may cause considerable, ongoing
Maclaran, P. +9 more
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CHALLENGING RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY: The Emergence of Salafi Ustadhs in Indonesia
Journal of Indonesian Islam, 2012 With Muslims as majority population, religious authority plays important roles in Indonesia. This paper tries to show the map of religious authority in Indonesia both in history and the recent development.
Din Wahid
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Islamic Authority Figures and Their Religioscapes in Indonesia
Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism, 2021 In this article I argue that religious authority figures in Indonesia form the core of any given religioscape. A religioscape is a dynamic social space where one religious practice or religious interpretation is predominant.
Claudia Seise
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‘Wife, Mommy, Pastor and Friend’: The Rise of Female Evangelical Microcelebrities
Religions, 2021 The popularity of digital media has spurred what has been called a “crisis of authority”. How do female evangelical microcelebrities figure in this crisis? Many of these women belong to churches led by male pastors, have amassed a large following online,
Katie Christine Gaddini
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Mediated religion: Implications for religious authority
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016 The relationship between media and religion seems to be a well established research topic today. Themes like identity formation and community with regard to digital religion are well researched, but religious authority is pointed out as an area that ...
Anita L. Cloete
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Rudolf Steiner as a religious authority
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 The aim of this article is to clarify what Rudolf Steiner’s followers thought of him at the time of his demise. How can we explain the rapid spread of the Anthroposophical Society in Europe and the United States during the inter-war period?
Tore Ahlbäck
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