...there has been a re-awakening of a sort of “religious” c… - Azza Karam

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...there has been a re-awakening of a sort of “religious” consciousness and emergence in public life all over the world. As a scholar of these trends, I have written elsewhere that this has had a great deal to do with the loss of the traditional meta-narratives we were familiar with, such as liberalism, socialism, and communism. I believe that some have sought recourse in religion partly because political spaces offered an ideological vacuum.

Azza Karam

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Azza Karam is an Egyptian professor and author, who is known for being the first woman executive director of Religions for Peace.

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