EDITORIAL

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Sarojini Nadar Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice University of the Western Cape
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As a journal, we are committed to exploring the multiple and complexways in which power operates in gendered relationships–particularly when those relationships intersect with religion and culture. This issue of the journal explores these operations of power through the agency of women and men within religious and cultural discourses. They challenge the ways in which power is conceived, its location and the possibilities for discursive interventions for constructing gendered forms of agency...

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Published
2020-05-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14426/ajgr.v24i1.900

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2018)
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EDITORIAL

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Sarojini Nadar, Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice University of the Western Cape

Sarojini Nadar (PhD) is a full professor at the University of the Western Cape where she also holds the Desmond Tutu Research Chair. The Chair focuses on developing and supporting advanced research in the area of religion and social transformation in Africa. She was a co-founder of the Gender and Religion program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2002 which she headed until 2016. Her numerous publications span diverse topics of research at the intersections of gender studies and religion, including gender based violence, HIV, masculinity studies and, most recently, gender in higher education.

Fatima Seedat, University of Cape Town

Fatima Seedat (PhD Islamic Law, McGill) holds a Senior Lectureship in Gender Studies at the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where her long term project is concerned with the convergence of historical and traditional constructions of sex difference with contemporary gender norms and legal paradigms.

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EDITORIAL. (2020). African Journal of Gender and Religion, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.14426/ajgr.v24i1.900