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1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Contents |
Pt. 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 Norms in the Main Currents of Islam -- 3.Methodology for Comparative Research on the Main 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 Iran in 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 -- pt. 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 -- 8.4.Women's Rights in a Rational Reading of Islam -- 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 |
| Notes |
doctoral Ruhr University, Bochum |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Muslim women -- Social conditions
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Human rights -- Islam
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Civil rights -- Islam
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Equality -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Equality -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Muslim women -- Social conditions
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783863882983 |
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3863882989 |
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3863887352 |
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9783863887353 |
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