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Religion and International Relations Theory: From Absence to Challenge
As described earlier, Hindu women are wished the blessing of being a mother to sons. Prenatal sex determination and sex selective abortion in rural Central China. Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice, 4, 34. The problem of religion and the anxieties of European secular democracy. Throughout his rule, Hitler called the Nazi cause as Christian. Including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
For many feminist scholars like Ruether, Wadud Wadud, , Gross, and Goldstein, religious and feminist thinking is mutually constructed and reinforcing. Thus, when examining so-called religious actors or phenomena, scholars must be reflexive—actively engaging with their own assumptions about what it means for someone or something to be religious. Frances Raday relates that in Israel, between 20 and 40 family honor killings go uninvestigated and unpunished a year. He blames Islamic fundamentalists who manipulated Islam, leading to declining status for women, in order to pursue their own misogynistic goals. Their religious subordination can be linked to legal equality, and the different forms of subordinating women implicitly and often explicitly lead to the inequality of women. Islam and the veil: Theoretical and regional contexts. The significance of gender is confounded by the fact that religion often functions as a key legitimator and mutual constituent of specific gender patterns and practices that, in turn, are taken as normal, natural i.
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Sharma argues that religious developments such as these have not had a positive effect on women. Security Studies, 12 4 , 1—33. Does religion matter in contraceptive use among Ghanaian women? Religion and politics in international relations: The modern myth. Conflicts that broke out in Armenia and Azerbaijan, the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and elsewhere were seen almost exclusively as conflicts between different and incommensurable religious identities, even where peoples of different religions had intermarried and lived together peacefully for years. The Dalai Lama has a great influence in the Tibetan region and would be able to reassure and appease hardliners. In Religion, politics, and gender equality. In discussing Islam, Esposito describes the way patriarchy prevailed with men as the primary political, religious, and intellectual leaders of the community.
The Rabbinate versus Israeli Jewish women: The Mikvah as a contested domain. There are likely numerous other examples of such organizations online written in foreign languages. Lived regulations, systemic attributions: Menstrual separation and ritual immersion in the experience of Orthodox Jewish women. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 29 2 , 25—45. Interestingly, Piela describes virtual spaces as offering an opportunity for Islamic women to communicate with other women who are grappling with their roles in Islam without being undermined by the misogynistic views of male scholars.
The next section discusses in more detail the problems with essentialization and reification of religion, followed by new approaches articulated by scholars to cope with the conceptual, methodological, normative, and pragmatic difficulties that reification produces. In , published in the Journal of Peace Research, I developed my theory on how religion-state connections affect international relations, and tested it using a large-n analysis of international conflict data. Nothing sacred: Women respond to religious fundamentalism and terror. The study of religion and its twin concept of the secular are thus currently going through a period of great vitality across the social sciences. Lived regulations, systemic attributions: Menstrual separation and ritual immersion in the experience of Orthodox Jewish women.
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The ambivalence of the sacred: Religion, violence, and reconciliation. Frequent act s of domestic religious intolerance have defaced Indonesia's claim as a moderate Islamic force while Indonesia has generally perceived to lie in the periphery of the Islamic world. To address equality and the politics of gender, it is necessary to pay greater attention to the networks of agents and institutions that influence local practices rather than to focus on religion itself as a source Kandiyoti,. Proponents of Buddhist philosophy argue that this is an example of context or culture rather than religion. Comments Off on Religion and International Relations. Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with Sharia stones in twenty-first-century Nigeria.
Religion and International Relations: Normative Issues
Positive Christianity differed from Christianity in many ways. However, in many Buddhist countries and communities, this idea of gender assignment in rebirth is associated with karma. Religious convictions motivate several actors, confer legitimacy upon one's or others' actions, and cause reactions to policies ranging from peaceful demonstrations to violent protests. For many other religions, there is a less unified body of feminist literature. For example, could it be that capitalism is made possible by structures of thinking that are themselves religious, or more accurately, Judeo-Christian? People are not stronger believers than they used to be, but their identification to belonging and behaving has certainly shifted, leading to a collusion between political and Islamic belongings that facilitates political mobilization.
Religion and International Relations Theory: From Absence to Challenge
Religion and human rights: Competing claims? As Max Weber , p. Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era. Gender and Society, 19 3 , 336—357. Rights, culture, and crime: The role of rule of law for the women of Afghanistan. Islam and democracy: Fear of the modern world.
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Reproductive Health Matters, 12 24 , 128—137. In what follows, scholars engage in a range of discussions on political agency and the critical analysis of gender from both within and without religious and secular feminisms. Social Compass, 54 3 , 419—434. Review of Religious Research, 41 3 , 328—343. By framing the fight as defensive, they appear to be a victim rather than an aggressor, and give struggle the very highest religious priority for all good Muslims.
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Israel has expressed concerns regarding safety to this plan. Qualitative Sociology, 19 2 , 173—193. However, Hans Blumenberg disagreed with Löwith, contending that progress and eschatology are substantively different, in that the former focuses on internal mechanisms of change and the latter requires an external force of change Wallace, , p. Nach einer Erörterung über die Möglichkeiten und Grundzüge einer adäquaten Analyse von Religion in ihrer konfliktantreibenden Rolle, werden exemplarisch einige Beispiele aus dem Nahen Osten und Nordafrika beschrieben. The age of marriage gradually decreased within Hinduism.
