1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455825703321

Titolo

Theodicy in the World of the Bible : The Goodness of God and the Problem of Evil / / edited by Antii Laato, Johannes de Moor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-46785-1

9786610467853

1-4175-1046-3

90-474-0262-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (885 p.)

Disciplina

291.2/118

Soggetti

Jewish religious literature - History and criticism

Middle Eastern literature - History and criticism

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Theodicy - History of doctrines

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Theodicy and Modernity; Theodicy in Ancient Egyptian Texts; Theodicy in Akkadian Literature; Theodicy in Hittite Texts; Theodicy in the Texts of Ugarit; Theodicy in the Pentateuch; Theodicy in the Deuteronomistic History; Theodicy and Prophetic Literature; Theodicy in the Psalms; Theodicy in Job; Theodicy in the Book of Ruth; Theodicy in the Book of Esther; Theodicy in Qohelet; Theodicy in Lamentations?; Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles; Theodicy in Early Jewish Writings; Theodicy in the Wisdom of Ben Sira; Theodicy in the Wisdom of Solomon

Theodicy in the Psalms of SolomonTheodicy in Philo of Alexandria; Theodicean Motifs in the New Testament; The Book of Revelation; Theodicy in Judaism; Theodicy in the Targumim; Abbreviations; Index of Authors; Index of Texts; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Is it justice when deities allow righteous human beings to suffer? This question has occupied the minds of theologians and philosophers for many centuries and is still hotly disputed. All kinds of argument have



been developed to exonerate the 'good God' of any guilt in this respect. Since Leibniz it has become customary to describe such attempts as 'theodicy', the justification of God. In modern philosophical debate this use of 'theodicy' has been questioned. However, this volume shows that it is still a workable term for a concept that originated much earlier than is commonly realised. Experts from many disciplines follow the emergence of the theodicy problem from ancient Near Eastern texts of the second millennium BCE through biblical literature, from both Old and New Testament, intertestamental writings including Qumran, Philo Judaeus and rabbinic Judaism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464120903321

Titolo

Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights / / Dorothy L. Hodgson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-89789-X

0-8122-0461-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Classificazione

PC 5350

Disciplina

305.4209

Soggetti

Women's rights - Developing countries

Human rights - Developing countries

Women - Developing countries - Social conditions

Culture

Women's rights

Human rights

Women - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights / Hodgson, Dorothy L. -- PART I. Images and



Interventions -- Chapter 1. Gender, History, and Human Rights / Scully, Pamela -- Chapter 2. Between Law and Culture: Contemplating Rights for Women in Zanzibar / Maoulidi, Salma -- Chapter 3. A Clash of Cultures: Women, Domestic Violence, and Law in the United States / Goldfarb, Sally F. -- PART II. Travels and Translations -- Chapter 4. Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide / Levitt, Peggy / Merry, Sally Engle -- Chapter 5. The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women's Rights" / Abu-Lughod, Lila -- Chapter 6. How Not to be a Machu Qari (Old Man): Human Rights, Machismo, and Military Nostalgia in Peru's Andes / Yezer, Caroline -- Chapter 7. "These Are Not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture / Hodgson, Dorothy L. -- PART III. Mobilizations and Mediations -- Chapter 8. The Rights to Speak and to Be Heard: Women's Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Stephen, Lynn -- Chapter 9. Muslim Women, Rights Discourse, and the Media in Kenya / Alidou, Ousseina D. -- Chapter 10. Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees' Struggles for Rights / Rodriguez, Robyn M. -- Chapter 11. Defending Women, Defending Rights: Transnational Organizing in a Culture of Human Rights / Real, Mary Jane N. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of rights. The essays address the gender-specific ways in which rights-based protocols have been analyzed, deployed, and legislated in the past and the present and the implications for women and men, adults and children in various social and geographical locations. Questions addressed include: What are the gendered assumptions and effects of the dominance of rights-based discourses for claims to social justice? What kinds of opportunities and limitations does such a "culture of rights" provide to seekers of justice, whether individuals or collectives, and how are these gendered? How and why do female bodies often become the site of contention in contexts pitting cultural against juridical perspectives? The contributors speak to central issues in current scholarly and policy debates about gender, culture, and human rights from comparative disciplinary, historical, and geographical perspectives. By taking "gender," rather than just "women," seriously as a category of analysis, the chapters suggest that the very sources of the power of human rights discourses, specifically "women's rights as human rights" discourses, to produce social change are also the sources of its limitations.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910680200403321

Titolo

Africa monitor North Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Business Monitor International, 2000-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

330.961005

Soggetti

Economic forecasting - Africa, North

Enquêtes économiques - Afrique du Nord

Prévision économique - Afrique du Nord

Economic forecasting

Economic history

Politics and government

Periodicals.

Africa, North Economic conditions Periodicals

Africa, North Politics and government Periodicals

North Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from caption.