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VERMONTERS OF FAITH TURN TO VIRTUAL WORSHIP ADMIDST COVID-19
VPR Radio
Passover, Easter and Ramadan all happen this month. But since Gov. Phil Scott issued his "Stay Home, Stay Safe" order, religious and spiritual organizations have had to move their services online. This hour, we speak with people of different faiths and ask how they are staying connected to their communities during COVID-19. SPECIAL GUEST: Zahra Ayubi, Assistant Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, Rev. Don Chatfield, Director and Lead Pastor at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne, Rabbi Amy Joy Small, Senior Rabbi at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington, and Pastor Mitch Kindrell, Associate Pastor at Christ Memorial Church in Williston.
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E10: MUSLIMS AND #METOO ft. ZAHRA AYUBI
Muslim In Moderation
Scholar Zahra Ayubi discusses the problem of spiritual and sexual abuse including Muslim celebrity cases, countering the culture of silence and the importance of women in mosque governance. Listen to full interview.
GENDER GAP: WHY ARE WOMEN MORE RELIGIOUS?
New Hampshire Public Radio, The Exchange
A new study finds that while Americans overall are a religious bunch compared to people in other developed countries. Among U.S. women, that commitment is especially high, whether it's attending worship services or daily prayer. We'll look at this gender-gap, what might be behind it, and what it means for organized religion. Listen to full interview.
GENDERED MORALITY
New Books in Islamic Studies
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islamic virtue ethics gendered, despite their venture into perennial concerns of how best to live a good and ethical life? These are the questions that Zahra Ayubi, an assistant professor of religion at Dartmouth college, examines in her new book Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society.
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GENDERED MORALITY WITH DR. ZAHRA AYUBI, CICW
Shenandoah University (CICW Book Series)
Dr. Zahra Ayubi (Dartmouth College) discusses her book, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society (Columbia University Press, 2019)." In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. Watch full video.
HOW ARE FEMINISM & RELIGION INTERSECTING?
The Breaking Free Show
Host Marilyn Shannon of The Breaking Free Show, listening expert and author of the “In Just One Afternoon” book series, sits down with Zahra Ayubi, April Young Bennett, Mary Dispenza, Zahra Khan and Theresa Ann Yugar who stand together on the front lines of a revolutionary movement that is blending feminism with religion. Watch full video.
THE REALITIES OF BEING A MUSLIM FEMINIST IN AMERICA
The Breaking Free Show
On this week's episode the Breaking Free Show we speak with Zahra Ayubi, Assistant Professor of Religion at Dartmouth and author of Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society, about the realities of being a Muslim woman in America, and on how the study of Islam can show us how to live and flourish. Watch full video.
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THE ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A RELIGIOUS RIGHT
When evangelical professor Bruce Waltke shared a standard biblical interpretation in favor of abortion in 1968, his words were hardly controversial. “God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed,” he wrote in a 1968 Christianity Today article. “Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.” Read full article
A LONG TIME COMING’: THESE MUSLIMS ARE BRINGING SEX ABUSE BY SHEIKHS OUT OF THE SHADOWS
For Sidrah Ahmad-Chan, the moment felt surreal. Listening to a Muslim psychologist speaking about patterns of abuse while on stage at the American Islamic College on Saturday (Jan. 11), she pulled up Twitter. “First panel discussion and I am already reeling,” typed Ahmad-Chan, a Toronto-based researcher studying gender-based violence and Islamophobia, who was one of about 100 other attendees at the newly launched Hurma Project’s first conference. Started by prominent Canadian Islamic scholar Ingrid Mattson, the three-day research conference was the first to focus entirely on abuse in Muslim spaces. Read full article
TUNISIA LAUNCHES STATE SPONSORED SEX EDUCATION PROGRAM RARITY IN THE ARAB WORLD. Read full article
MUSLIMS RISE UP
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