Creative Conformity - The Feminist Politics of U.s. Catholic and Iranian Shi''i Women

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth M. Bucar is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the coeditor of Does Human Rights Need God? Klappentext Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that! historically! have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. This book demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and! more importantly! misleading. Zusammenfassung Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that! historically! have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. This book demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and! more importantly! misleading. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Creative Conformity! Clerical Guidance! and a Rhetorical Turn 1. What's a Good Woman to Do? Recasting the Symbolics of Moral Exemplars 2. Surprises From the Laps of Mothers: Leveraging the Gaps in Procreative Virtues 3. Scripture! Sacred Law! and Hermeneutics: Exploring Gendered Meanings in Textual Records 4. Performance beyond the Pulpit: Presenting Disorderly Bodies in Public Spaces 5. Republication of Moral Discourse: Compromise and Censorship as Political Freedom Conclusion Epilogue: Revisiting Shahla Habibi Glossary

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• Authors: Elizabeth M. Bucar, Bucar Elizabeth M.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9781589017399
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-739-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Moral Traditions Series; Moral Traditions (Paperback); Moral Traditions series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy