Dr. Vimbai G. Chivaura – abstract
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B.E. Bartelink MA – abstract
Brenda Bartelink (MA) is working on a PhD research project in which she analyses discourses and practices on religion and development. She is currently preparing for a fieldwork period in Tanzania, in which she aims to gain insight in the meaning of religion in the work of Christian and Muslim faith based organisations. Previously she has been working on a research project focussed an analysis of discourses and practices on Islam, women and development, for which she has done fieldwork with women’s organisations in Yemen in 2004. In 2003-2005 she was a policy advisor with the gender department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Publications
Bartelink, B.E. and Buitelaar, M.W. ‘The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen’ in Gender and Development, vol. 14, nr. 3 (November 2006)351- 361
B.E. Bartelink, ‘Erken me als vrouw én moslim. Maysam Al- Faruqi in het islamitisch feministisch vertoog’ Tijdschrift Fier, January 2006 (Dutch article on Maysam Al- Faruqi and Islamic feminist discourses)
www.rug.nl/theol/staf/bartelink/index
Dr. Louke M. van Wensveen – abstract
Dr. L.M. van Wensveen is Senior Researcher at the Oikos Foundation, which participates in the Knowledge Centre Religion & Development. Until 2002 she was Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A specialist on ecological virtue ethics and business ethics, dr. Van Wensveen also advises the chemical industry on sustainability strategy.
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