Faried F. Saenong is a researcher at the Wellington-based Council for International Development, and JD Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). He is also an associated fellow at UWISG University of Waikato.
He gives lectures and tutorials on Islam and completed his PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University (ANU). He is also currently conducting his research and fieldwork on “Global Politics of Moderate Islam” funded by Luce Foundation (USA) and Emory University (2019-2024).
His publications appeared in Journal of al-Tamaddun, Waikato Islamic Studies Review/WISR, Journal of Islamic Civilization in Southeast Asia, and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.
His chapters include “Gender and Women’s Religious Education in Indonesia”, in Suad Joseph (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Culture, (Leiden: Brill, 2016); “Alid Piety in Bugis Texts on Proper Sexual Arts” in Chiara Formichi and Michael Feener (eds.), Shi'ism in South East Asia: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Construction (London: Hurst, 2015).