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• Professor Mary Nyangweso is the J. Woolard and Helen Peel Distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Her area of specialization is religion, human rights and gender. She received her PhD in the Sociology of Religion at Drew University. She has authored Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (Praeger, 2014). Female Circumcision: the Interplay Between Religion, Gender and Culture in Kenya (Orbis Maryknoll, New York: 2007) in addition to several peer review journal articles and book chapters on religion and women in Africa. She has also co-edited "Religion, Gender Based Violence, Immigration and Human Rights, published by Routledge books and World Religions in the Global Society: Selected Readings published by Cognella. Her current manuscript is titled "The African Woman and Her Rights" manuscript, and she also serves as subject area editor of African Religions also contracted by Routledge. Other works include "Reclaiming Religious Studies and the Humanities in National Development," "Religion as Determinant of Reproductive Health Outcomes," amongst others. As a trained sociologist, theologian and an activist, she has a passion for intersectionality as a model of examining how social issues intersect. Read more about her at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/religionprogram/Mary-Nyangweso.cfm