1st Edition
On the Significance of Religion for Deliberative Democracy
Summary Recommendations and Implications for Policy Makers, Religious Leaders, Researchers and Practitioners
Introduction: Religion and Deliberative Democracy: An Interface of Practices
1. Deliberative Democracy and Religion as Practices: Problems and Potentials
2. Case Study 1: Religious Spaces and Gender-Based Violence: A Deliberative Approach to Voicing our Pain
3. Case Study 2: "Gyae ma ne nka" (Let It Be): A Religious Notion of Peace or a Shutdown of Democratic Conversations?
4. Case Study 3: Church, Charity, and Philanthropy: Deciding Faith-Based Actions Democratically
Now What? Recommendations and Implications for Policy Makers, Religious Leaders, Researchers, and Practitioners
Biography
Ruby Quantson Davis is a peace and development specialist, an Associate Member of Wesley House Cambridge, UK, faculty member of the Deliberative Democracy Institute and former Fellow and Resident Scholar of the Kettering Foundation in the United States.
Elizabeth Gish is currently Program Officer at the Kettering Foundation. Previously Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Western Kentucky University, USA.
Kudakwashe Chitsike is a lawyer and consultant on a sexual violence and global health investigation in Zimbabwe.
