Religious Fundamentalisms And The Human Rights Of Women

Author : C. Howland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107389
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women written by C. Howland and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sow, Fatou
Publisher : CODESRIA
ISBN 13 : 2869787545
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genre et fondamentalismes written by Sow, Fatou and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, why and how can religion and culture be both sources, and places of expression for fundamentalisms, particularly in relation to politics? Those are the central questions asked throughout this book alongside a discussion on the result when religion, strenthened by culture, is used as a political tool to access moral and social power. Cultural and religious messages often form the basis of decisions, laws and programs made in politics, and have a direct effect on society in general, and on women and gender relations in particular. The various forms taken by fundamentalisms in some African countries and the contexts under which they have emerged, the ways in which they (re)shape identities and relationships between men and women are also analysed in this book. These fundamentalisms are frequently sources of concern in social debates, in feminist and feminine organizations as well as in academia and politics. The manipulation of cultures and religions are becoming progressively political, and consequently can cause social discrimination, or even physical, moral, and symbolic violence. À partir de quels moments, pour quelles raisons et de quelles manières, la religion et la culture, lorsqu’elles se lient au politique, peuvent-elles être à la fois sources et lieux d’expression des fondamentalismes ? Ce sont les questions centrales qui traversent ce livre. Ce qui est considéré ici, c’est « la religion » lorsqu’elle est idéologie qui fonde la culture et devient outil d’accès au pouvoir moral, au pouvoir social et surtout au pouvoir politique. Les messages culturels et religieux et leurs interprétations sous-tendent souvent les décisions, les lois et les programmes prises par le politique. Ils ont des effets directs sur la société, en général, et sur les femmes et les rapports de genre, en particulier. Les contributions à cet ouvrage analysent les diverses formes du fondamentalisme dans quelques pays africains, leurs contextes d’émergence et la manière dont elles (re)façonnent les identités et les rapports hommes/femmes. Ces fondamentalismes constituent des sources de préoccupations persistantes dans les débats de société, aussi bien des organisations féministes et féminines que des mondes académiques et politiques. Les manipulations des cultures et des religions se font de plus en plus politiques et finissent par occasionner des discriminations sociales, voire des violences physiques, morales et symboliques assurément insoutenables.

Author : Betsy Reed
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560254508
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Sacred written by Betsy Reed and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Gender written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentalism, as the word implies, is about getting back to basics, and for Americans this has meant getting back to God's word as proclaimed in the Bible. Yet the issues that American fundamentalists have most hotly contested--abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment--have little to do with scripture per se. Why are these so central? Perhaps it is because the real fundamentals of fundamentalism are social, not textual. Fundamentalism often seems to be about "family values" and restoring women to their "proper place"--not just in America, but wherever the corrosive effects of secular modernity are felt.The purpose of this book is to examine the connection between fundamentalism and gender. In their introduction, John Hawley and Wayne Proudfoot plot the intellectual terrain. Then four specialists--Randall Balmer, Peter Awn, John Hawley, and Helen Hardacre--present case studies from Islam, Hinduism, the New Religions of Japan, and American Christianity. In response, Jay Harris and Karen McCarthy Brown come forth with diametrically opposite conclusions. Harris, working from a Jewish perspective, argues that fundamentalism makes no sense as a comparative category, especially in relation to gender. Brown on the contrary turns to depth psychology to show why fundamentalism is necessarily tied to a conservative ideology of gender.Here readers interested in women's issues, comparative religion, and global fundamentalism are given fresh perspectives on one of the most pressing debates of our time.

Author : Sukhwant Dhaliwal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909831025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Against Fundamentalism written by Sukhwant Dhaliwal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) was formed in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. This book maps the development of the organisation over the past 25 years, through the life stories and political reflections of some of its members, focusing on the ways in which lived contradictions have been reflected in their politics. They explore the ways in which anti-fundamentalism relates to broader feminist, anti-racist and other emancipatory political ideologies and movements.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 056702749X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions written by Arvind Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege with women's roles in the various world's religions. The essayists explore fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examine the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism. The essays cover Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The contributors investigate the ways that women "fight back" against fundamentalist conceptions of family, gender roles, doctrinal practices, ritual practices, and God or theistic constructs. The writers reassert and preserve their identities by challenging the static categories of fundamentalism. The essays contain deep and powerful explorations of the intersections of culture, religion, and feminism.

Author : James Busuttil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134490100
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freedom to do God's Will written by James Busuttil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the auspices of top international commentators, The Freedom to do God's Will considers the global impact of fundamentalism on religious traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. With special reference to human rights issues, women's rights and the influence of social factors, it brings a new dimension to a field of study often dominated by purely religious or political perspectives, whilst challenging received ideas about the violence and conservatism of fundamentalist movements. Illustrated with original case studies, the ten investigative essays from a multicultural panel of experts, each with specific local and academic knowledge of the faiths and issues they discuss, offer an intimate and highly specific portrait of why and how fundamentalism occurs.

Author : Fatmagül Berktay
Publisher : Black Rose Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Fatmagül Berktay and published by Black Rose Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that encourages women to go beyond the boundaries of religion and reclaim their rights.

Author : Project on Religion and Human Rights
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Human Rights written by Project on Religion and Human Rights and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karima Bennoune
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081583
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism written by Karima Bennoune and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on fieldwork and interviews with Muslims in places ranging from Lahore, Pakistan to Minneapolis, Minnesota to discuss contemporary opinions on the rise of fundamentalism in Islam and how it can be curbed.