Author: Arlene Brennan

New director at CURA

Menchik Appointed Director of CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs   Jeremy Menchik has been named the new director of CURA: The Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. Established in 1985, CURA is the oldest center for the study of religion and world affairs in the United States. […]

Talk: Women in World Christianity, with Gina Zurlo

Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is the first World Christianity textbook to put women in the center of the Christian story, especially Christianity’s shift to the global South and the continuation of Christian faith into the future. The book is based on a Louisville Institute funded project, “Women in World […]

Visiting Student in the news

CURA visiting student Saleena Saleem recently gave a radio interview to Channel News Asia on Anwar Ibrahim’s appointment as prime minister of Malaysia. Her comments in that interview were later included by the journalist in an article (see the link to the article below). Link: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-new-prime-minister-anwar-ibrahim-ge15-unity-3100296  

Coming-out narratives of ex-Muslims in France

“Ex-Muslims and the Politics of Public Apostasy From Islam in Contemporary France” with Adi Saleem Bharat (CAS ’14) Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Tuesday, December 13 2:00-3:30pm 121 Bay State Rd. This talk examines the “coming-out” narratives of self-described ex-Muslims in France. Generally speaking, two main types of narratives exist: […]

Trust Building, Social Learning, and Muslim Women Activism in Malaysia

Saleena Saleem, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool and CURA visiting student One contributing factor to socio-political polarisation in Malaysia is the repeated emotive trope of a secular-versus-religious dichotomy that is reinforced through racial politics, (un)civil society activism, and media frames, especially when contentious issues involving Islamic law, often related to women and gender, capture public […]