ERIC Number: EJ1456246
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-6200
EISSN: EISSN-1740-7931
Drinking from Our Own Wells in Ghana: Interfaith Education, Civic Engagement, and Resisting the Anti-LGBT Agenda
John P. Falcone; Davis Mac-Iyalla
British Journal of Religious Education, v47 n1 p5-15 2025
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.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legislation, Social Bias, LGBTQ People, Religious Education, Intervention, Consciousness Raising, Political Issues, Diversity, Civil Rights, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Influences, Religious Factors, Social Justice
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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