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Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere (Paperback)
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Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and
political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for
women's equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side
and the claims of religions on the other side are well-documented
across all major religions and regions. It is also well recognized
in feminist scholarship that gender identities and ethno-religious
identities work together in complex ways that are often exploited
by dominant groups. Hence, a more comprehensive understanding of
the changing role and influence of religion in the public sphere
more widely requires complex, multidisciplinary and comparative
gender analyses. Most recent discussion on these matters, however,
especially in Europe, has focused primarily on the perceived
subordinate status of Muslim women. These debates are a reminder of
the deep interrelation of questions of gender, identity, human
rights and religious freedom more generally. The relatively narrow
(albeit important) purview of such discussions so far, however,
underscores the need to extend the horizon of enquiry vis-a-vis
religion, gender and the public sphere beyond the binary of 'Islam
versus the West'. Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere moves
gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates
about the role of religion in public and political life. It offers
a timely, multidisciplinary collection of gender-focused essays
that address an array of challenges arising from the changing role
and influence of religious organisations, identities, actors and
values in the public sphere in contemporary multicultural and
democratic societies.
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