Creative conformity : the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women /
Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. Creative Conformity demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2011
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| Series: | Moral traditions series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. Creative Conformity demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and, more importantly, misleading. In this highly original study, Elizabeth Bucar compares the feminist politics of eleven U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women and explores how these women contest and affirm clerical mandates in order to expand their roles within their religious communit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 201 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781589017528 1589017528 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
