Womens Rights And Religious Law
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Author | : Fareda Banda |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317517660 |
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The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux. This relationship may be configured in a number of ways. Religious norms may be enforced by the state as part of a regime of personal law or, conversely, religious norms may be formally relegated to the private sphere but can be brought into the legal realm through the private acts of individuals. Enhanced recognition of religious tribunals or religious doctrines by civil courts may create a hybrid of these two models. One of the major issues in the reconciliation of changing civic ideals with religious tenets is gender equality, and this is an ongoing challenge in both domestic and international affairs. Examining this conflict within the context of a range of issues including marriage and divorce, violence against women and children, and women’s political participation, this collection brings together a discussion of the Abrahamic religions to examine the role of religion in the struggle for women’s equality around the world. The book encompasses both theory and practical examples of how law can be used to negotiate between claims for gender equality and the right to religion. It engages with international and regional human rights norms and also national considerations within countries. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in law and religion, gender studies and human rights law.
Author | : Lisa Fishbayn Joffe |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1611683270 |
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Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
Author | : Marie Failinger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317135784 |
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With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at the intersection of feminism, theology and law. It examines a range of themes from the viewpoint of identifiable traditions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, from a theoretical and practical perspective. Among the themes discussed are the cross-over between religious and secular values and assumptions in the search for a just jurisprudence for women, the application of theological insights from religious traditions to legal issues at the core of feminist work, feminist legal readings of scriptural texts on women's rights and the place that religious law has assigned to women in ecclesiastic life. Feminists of faith face challenges from many sides: patriarchal remnants in their own tradition, dismissal of their faith commitments by secular feminists and balancing the conflicting loyalties of their lives. The book will be essential reading for legal and religious academics and students working in the area of gender and law or law and religion.
Author | : Barbara Berish Brown |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Heiner Bielefeldt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198703988 |
Download Freedom of Religion Or Belief Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This commentary on freedom of religion or belief provides a comprehensive overview of the pressing issues of freedom of religion or belief from an international law perspective.
Author | : Chitra Raghavan |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611682800 |
Download Self-determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessarily in opposition. A multidisciplinary group of scholars examine ideology, practice, and reform efforts in the areas of marriage, divorce, abortion, violence against women, inheritance, and female circumcision across the Islamic world, illuminating how religious and cultural prescriptions interact with legal norms, affecting change in sometimes surprising ways.
Author | : Richard H. Hiers |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1610976274 |
Download Women's Rights and the Bible Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this volume, Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either ignores women or requires them to be subject and subservient to men. He does so by identifying and carefully examining hundreds of biblical texts and allowing them to speak for themselves. Among the findings: - that biblical tradition generally represents women positively, as strong and independent persons; - that no text represents wives as subject to their husbands and that no biblical law requires such subjection; - that biblical laws provide many protections for women's rights and interests--in several instances, rights equal to those enjoyed by men. The book focuses particularly on the Old Testament and Old Testament law, and argues that Old Testament laws and their underlying values provide important resources for Christian ethics and social policy today.
Author | : C. Howland |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230107389 |
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Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.
Author | : A. Boden |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781349362264 |
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The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept inappropriate for gaining rights for religious women.
Author | : Nazila Ghanea |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160942839 |
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