 There's a lot of recognition of how faith, the role that faith can play in the work of peace activists and certain peace movements in calls for social justice around the world. And so why is it so unusual that when it comes to gender justice, when it comes to women's rights advocacy, that faith isn't going to play an important role? Fortunately, secular feminism, especially as it's understood within the West, has been very resistant to religion, especially when it comes to advocating for women's rights. There really hasn't been a place for religion in that. More recently, there's been this attention on religious feminism and Islamic feminism in particular. Many Muslim women, their religion is an important part of their identity, their personal identity, and an important part of their advocacy work. There's actually great potential for religious and secular frameworks of women's rights to be compatible and complementary with each other, as long as that partnership recognizes women as agents of their own religiosity. That women are agents in how they identify with their religion, that their lived experiences with their religion is important, is legitimate. Their interpretations of their own religion is important and legitimate. It may be different from traditional religious authority. It may be the same, but we need to pay attention to those experiences and their perspectives that have often been silenced. From a secular feminist perspective, if we are not taking that into account, if we are not willing to engage women's own understanding of religion, their own agency and their religiosity, then we're silencing women. We're silencing women on a very important part of their identity. We've got to look beyond the religious institution, which is largely patriarchal, and those official leaders within religion, which again are oftentimes male across all religions, and really see people's own lived experiences and perspectives on religion in their own lives and what that identity means for them. That's something that both secular feminists and religious feminists agree on, is that the importance of recognizing and honoring women's own perspectives and beliefs and experiences.