When it comes to sharia regulations – or the question of Islamic norms more broadly there are few areas which direct relevance for daily life Muslims than what eat. For meat be halal, several theologians have claimed that animals must conscious at time slaughter. This method slaughter, however, is not allowed under laws Norway, require stunned before they can killed. creates a dilemma wh...

Addressing the cultural and religious beliefs around the issue of family planning has been a big challenge for the international development community. The concept of family planning has raised some concerns regarding its acceptability within Muslim populations. While some Muslim states and organisations have adopted a rather cautious approach to the issue, others have gone to the extent of inv...

Using a questionnaire validated by the project Biohead-Citizen, where 15 questions are dedicated to evolution, we analyse Muslim teachers' conceptions of evolution in several countries. The first part compares nine francophone countries, with varying degrees of Muslim or Christian culture: France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Gabon, and shows a strong ...

As a result of the HIV epidemic, masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa have become problematised. There is called for a transformation of masculinities. But what is strategies proposed by, on the one hand, some African theologians and, on the other hand, a local Pentecostal church. The fundamental difference is that the church seeks to transform masculinity within a patriarchal framework while th...

After Sep. 11, the Muslim people in USA were facing a critical situation of anti-Muslim hate crimes, which caused great impacts to Muslim people’s daily lives. The Muslim people’s social status and their lives therefore became the focused concern in the hostile urban environment. What is the Muslim people’s reaction and feel to this change? And how do they adapt themselves to the critical urban...