RT Article
T1 Drinking from our own wells in Ghana: interfaith education, civic engagement, and resisting the anti-LGBT agenda
JF British Journal of religious education
VO 47
IS 1
SP 5
OP 15
A1 Falcone, John P.
A2 Mac-Iyalla, Davis
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1913481182
AB This article explores how a public written response to anti-LGBT+ legislation in Ghana also functioned as a religious educational intervention to shape future visions of tolerant pluralism in Ghanaian society. Navigating the intersection of politics and religion, the Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA) lodged a religious objection to the ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021’, which criminalises non-heteronormative sexualities. The paper discusses how IDNOWA’s approach reflects an African vision of pluralism which anchors itself in Ghana’s religious and cultural traditions, and in pluralist models from Africa and beyond. In the spirit of action science, it calls for RE that highlights internal diversity within religious communities and that lifts up pluralist ‘heroes’ in the classroom and broader society.
K1 Theology
K1 Ghana
K1 Pluralism
K1 LGBT
DO 10.1080/01416200.2024.2305859