Explorations in women, rights, and religions
Sexual violence, religion and women's rights in a global perspective / Louise du Toit -- Understanding human rights from indigenous women's perspectives / Sylvia Marcos -- Women, ordination, and a Buddhist perspective : a violation of rights? / Carola Roloff -- Examining competing claims i...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire Bristol, CT
Equinox Publishing Ltd
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Woman
/ Religion
/ Women's emancipation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Feminism Religious aspects B Women and religion B Women Religious aspects B Women's Rights Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | Sexual violence, religion and women's rights in a global perspective / Louise du Toit -- Understanding human rights from indigenous women's perspectives / Sylvia Marcos -- Women, ordination, and a Buddhist perspective : a violation of rights? / Carola Roloff -- Examining competing claims in the dialogue over sex education in Ontario : women, rights and religion / Pamela Dickey Young -- Continued discrimination under the Indian Act / Beverly Jacobs -- Women's rights and religion : Jewish style / Norma Baumel Joseph -- Maria Clara in the 21st century : the uneasy discourse between the cult of the Virgin Mary and the Filipino women's lived realities / Jeane C. Peracullo -- The reconstruction of Muslim women's property rights in the 21st century / Zaleha Kamaruddin -- Charity and justice : a conversation with Evangelical Christian women serving marginalized populations in British Columbia / Kathryn Chan and Erin Thrift -- Women, rights talk, and African Pentecostalism / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Politicizing piety : women's rights and roles in the Tarbiyah Movement in Indonesia / Diah Ariani Arimbi -- Women's freedom of religion claims in Canada : assessing the role of choice / Jennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton -- Women, rights and religion in India : questioning the tradition / Asha Mukherjee -- Caring detachment in Buddhism and implications for women's rights / Suwanna Satha-Anand -- Afterword : women and religion in global and local perspective / Paul Bramadat, Jonathan W. White. "The application of women's rights to the religions of the world have prompted highly contentious debates. This volume explores the many intricate issues raised in such interactions.The chapters in this volume are authored by women scholars of religion from diverse regions of the world, representing a plurality of religions, including indigenous religions. To enrich this already complex undertaking, four philosophers and legal scholars have also contributed. Their chapters help to clarify present challenges and envision innovative possibilities. The volume identifies archaic attitudes involving exclusionary regulations and controversial gender-specific practices. More contemporary impasses, such as individualism, so prevalent in western rights debates, and the unitary model of human rights, where "one size fits all," as promulgated in the west, are also appraised. Current constructive moves, especially expanding the notion of rights to involve relationships, are acknowledged. A primary concern of this volume is that of fostering future such collaborations of women advocates of gender justice"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1781798397 |