Women''s Rights and Religious Practice - Claims in Conflict

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

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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

Product details

• Authors: A Boden, A. Boden, Alison L. Boden
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2007
• EAN: 9780230551442
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55144-2
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Women's Studies at York Series; York Studies on Women and Men; Women's Studies at York Series; Women's Studies at York; York Studies on Women and Men
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories