Women's Rights and Religious Practice: Claims in Conflict

by A. Boden

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780230551442
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/28/2007
Series:	Women's Studies at York Series
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

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

Table 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