Muslims and christians: women, religious nationalism and sustainability in the asia pacific region

Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel and Hilary Carey

Research program: Mobility and Exclusion

Through ethnographic studies of minority women in mixed Muslim-Christian communities in Australia and Bangladesh, the project (2005-2007) investigates the impact of new "religious nationalisms" on women's behaviour as a boundary marker of religious identity at local, national and international levels. It studies changes in areas of religious life linked to the sustainability of family and community, often the responsibility of women and increasingly marginalized by new global religious forms. The project will advance an understanding of women's responses to these changes and the consequences for the sustainability of communities.