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Record Nr.

UNINA9910284438103321

Autore

Bakhshizadeh Marziyeh, Dr.

Titolo

Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation / / Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leverkusen, : Budrich UniPress, 2018

ISBN

9783863882983

3863887352

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Disciplina

297.27

Soggetti

Islamic thought streams: fundamentalist

reformist and secularist

women’s rights

globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Changing Gender Norms in Islam. Between Reason and Revelation -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part One: Understanding Changing Gender Norms in the Modern Era -- 1 Conceptualizing Gender, Religion and Islam -- 2 Towards a Theoretical Model for Changing Gender Norms in the Main Streams of Islamic Thought -- 2.1 Religion in Sociology -- 2.2 The Dialectical Relationship Between Religion and Human Being: Pluralism, Rationality and the Crisis of Meaning -- 2.3 Islam and Structuration Theory: Between Individual Agency and Global Justice -- 2.4 Religion and Recognition -- 2.5 Theoretical Approach to Analysing Changing Gender Normsin the Main Currents of Islam -- 3 Methodology for Comparative Research on theMain Currents of Islam -- 4 Women's Rights in Iran and CEDAW: a Comparison -- 4.1 An Overview on the History of Women's Rights in Iran -- 4.2 The Emergence of CEDAW as a Global Norm of Gender Justice -- 4.3 Women's Rights in the Current Laws of the Islamic Republic of Iranin Comparison with CEDAW -- 5 Three Streams of Thought in the Near East and Iran and Their Views on Women's Rights -- 5.1 Women's Position in Diverse Currents of Islamic and Secular Thought in the Near East: the State of Research -- 5.2 Some Aspects of



the Historical Development of the Islamic Mu'tazili and Ash'ari Schools -- Part Two: Changing Gender Norms in the Main Currents of Islamic thought in Iran -- Introduction -- 6 Revelation and Gender Norms in the Fundamentalist Perspective -- 6.1 Religion as Structure -- 6.2 Individual Agency and Human Reason -- 6.3 Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity -- 6.4 Women's Rights in the Fundamentalist Perspective -- 7 Gender Norms Between Revelation und Human Reason in the Reformist Perspective -- 7.1 Individual Agency and Rationality in the Reformist View -- 7.2 Reformists and Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity.

7.3 Women's Rights in the Reformist Perspective -- 8 Seculars and Human Reason -- 8.1 Structural Approach to Religion -- 8.2 Individual Agency in a Rational Reading of Islam -- 8.3 Global Norms of Justice and Human Dignity in the Secular Perspective -- 9 Changing Gender Norms in the Dialectical Relationship Between Revelation and Human Reason -- 9.1 The Model for the Dialectical Relationship Between Religion, Revelation, Reason and Individual Agency -- 9.2 Main Currents of Islamic Thought -- 9.3 Desert-Based Notion of Justice -- 9.4 Justice Based on Individual Self-Determination Versus Desert-Based Justice -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolution from the perspectives of the main currents of Islamic thought, fundamentalists, reformists, and seculars, using a sociological explanation.