Women's Rights and Religious Practice - Claims in Conflict

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.

List of contents

Introduction A Conflict of Rights Claims Hierarchies of Rights Claims Theological Challenges to Religious Women's Rights The Question of Relativism The Question of Privacy The Question of Agency Religion, Rights and Change Bibliography Index

About the author

ALISON L. BODEN is a United Church of Christ minister serving as Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University, USA 

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: A Boden, A. Boden
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349362257
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36225-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Women's Studies at York Series; Women's Studies at York
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories