Title: Theological Challenges to Religious Women’s Rights
Abstract: This chapter will contrast the human rights notion with the theological positions of three of the world's major religions. Volumes have been written about each; these pages will provide a brief overview of equality and women. While each of these religious traditions contains a broad spectrum of interpretation on every social and religious topic, and the fullest compatibility with human rights norms for women, those positions that contribute to the conflict between religious freedoms and women's rights will receive particular attention. The chapter will demonstrate that in some religious communities the rights notion is so different from essential theological beliefs that its moral authority is eroded and the construct itself is disabled as a tool for securing religious women's rights. Alternately, the human rights idea can be so modified to adapt to religious teachings that the idea of gender equality is lost and the rights construct, as some religious communities employ it, is again unable to promote women's actual rights.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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