Women’s Rights and Religious Practice: Claims in Conflict (Women's Studies at York Series) - Tapa dura

Boden, Alison L.

 
9780230551442: Women’s Rights and Religious Practice: Claims in Conflict (Women's Studies at York Series)
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ISBN 10: 0230551440 ISBN 13: 9780230551442
Editorial: AIAA, 2007

Sinopsis

Religious freedom is widely agreed to be a basic human right. So are women’s rights , among others, to life, to freedom from torture or captivity, and to bodily integrity. Occasionally such rights claims come into conflict, with valid arguments made on each side for the importance of safeguarding religious integrity and for the dignity of women. Alison Boden analyzes the ways in which gender and religion so complicate the use of human rights rhetoric that it can become ineffective in resolving the standoff. Women’s Rights and Religious Practice traces the impediments to a legal resolution and, comparing Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity, examines the variety and complexity of theological positions on women and equality. With a perspective that respects both women’s rights and religious practices, the book analyzes arguments for accommodating ethical differences, for family privacy and religious authority, and for the wishes of the women involved. It concludes that, in many instances of such conflict, a resolution is to be found in changes to familial religious ideology rather than to rights legislation and enforcement.

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ALISON L. BODEN is a United Church of Christ Minister serving at the University of Chicago, USA, as Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Senior Lecturer in the Divinity School and the College, and Co-Chair of the Board of the Human Rights Program.

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AIAA
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
0230551440
ISBN 13 
9780230551442
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Número de páginas
240
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9781349362264: Women's Rights and Religious Practice: Claims in Conflict (Women's Studies at York Series)

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ISBN 10:  1349362263 ISBN 13:  9781349362264
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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