1. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Pilot Copy, February 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
2. Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1980
   
3. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
4. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1980
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   
6. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
7. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
8. Infidel
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
   
9. Movement for Christian Feminism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1977
   This pamphlet outlines the goals of the Christian Feminist Movement which is engaged in an ecumenical project designed to enable women concerned about sexism in the Churches to discover their role in strengthening the life of the church.
10. One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
11. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
    Resource Type: Website
    Women opposed to the Taliban, to the Afghan government, and to the foreign forces in Afghanistan.
12. Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
    Resource Type: Article
    'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
13. The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
14. 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2104
    Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
15. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Original title: History of American Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1870   Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
16. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
17. What's all the fuss about the veil?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
18. Women and the Christian Faith - A Selected Bibliography and Resource Catalogue
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    
19. Women Take On the Orthodox
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Increasing religious domination by the Orthodox is increasing conflict within Israeli and tension between American Jews and Israel.

Experts on Frauen & Religion in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law