Politics, Religion and Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics, Religion and Gender write by Sieglinde Rosenberger. This book was released on 2013-07-03. Politics, Religion and Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism. Seeking also to establish why the issue has become part of the disciplinary practices of some European countries but not of others, this work brings together an important collection of interpretative research regarding the current debates on the veil in Europe, offering an interdisciplinary scope and European-wide setting. Brought together through a common research methodology, the contributors focus on the different religious, political and cultural meanings of the veiling issue across eight countries and develop a comparative explanation of veiling regimes. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion & politics, gender studies and multiculturalism.
Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference write by Linell E. Cady. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.
Globalization, Religion and Gender
Globalization, Religion and Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization, Religion and Gender write by J. Bayes. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Globalization, Religion and Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1970s accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably authorized by religion has been central to these movements. At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women's health, and women's rights as human rights. In this book, scholars from eight different Muslim and Catholic communities analyze the political strategies that women are employing in these contexts ranging from acceptance of traditional doctrines to various forms of resistance, religious reinterpretation, innovation, and political action toward change and equal rights.
Gendering Religion and Politics
Gendering Religion and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendering Religion and Politics write by H. Herzog. This book was released on 2009-07-20. Gendering Religion and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to suggest an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex relations of gender, religion and politics in light of paradigmatic shifts in theories of modernity and the growing body of studies on gender and religion.
A Time to Embrace
A Time to Embrace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Time to Embrace write by William Stacy Johnson. This book was released on 2012-06-30. A Time to Embrace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In A Time to Embrace William Stacy Johnson brilliantly analyzes the religious, legal, and political debates about gay marriage, civil unions, and committed gay couples. This new edition includes updates that reflect the many changes in laws pertaining to civil unions / same-sex marriage since 2006.
