Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 14. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-78179-839-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78179-839-3 (9781781798393)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Morny Joy is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary.
Content
1. Sexual Violence, Religion and Women's Rights in a Global Perspective Louise du Toit, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 2. Understanding Human Rights from Indigenous Women's Perspectives Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 3. Women, Ordination, and a Buddhist Perspective: A Violation of Rights? Carola Roloff, University of Hamburg 4. Examining Competing Claims in the Dialogue over Sex Education in Ontario: Women, Rights and Religion Pamela Dickey Young, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 5. Continued Discrimination under the Indian Act Beverly Jacobs, University of Windsor, Ontario 6. Women's Rights and Religion: Jewish Style Norma Baumel Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal 7. 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, De La Salle University 8. The Reconstruction of Muslim Women's Property Rights in the 21st Century Zaleha Kamaruddin, International Islamic University Malaysia 9. Charity and Justice: A Conversation with Evangelical Christian Women Serving Marginalized Populations in British Columbia Kathryn Chan, University of Victoria, and Erin Thrift (PhD candidate, Simon Fraser University) 10. Women, Rights Talk, and African Pentecostalism Rosalind I.J. Hackett, University of Tennessee 11. Politicizing Piety: Women's Rights and Roles in the Tarbiyah Movement in Indonesia Diah Ariani Arimbi, Airlangga University, Indonesia 12. Women's Freedom of Religion Claims in Canada: Assessing the Role of Choice Jennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton, both at University of Calgary 13. Women, Rights and Religion in India: Questioning the Tradition Asha Mukherjee, Visva-Bharati Central University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India 14. Caring Detachment in Buddhism and Implications for Women's Rights Suwanna Satha-Anand, Chulalongkorn University 15. Afterword: Women and Religion in Global and Local Perspective Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria