Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. Especially since the Arab Awakening, the issue is usually framed as the oppositionbetween liberal advocates of secular democracy and religious opponents of women's full equality.Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective critically re-engages this too s…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Casanova, José (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-109286-2
- EAN: 9780191092862
- Produktnummer: 29057417
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'039 KB
Über den Autor
Jocelyne Cesari is Professor of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham and Senior Research fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center where she directs the Islam in World Politics Program. She is an adjunct Professor at the Harvard Divinity School and directs the interfaculty Program on Islam in the West at Harvard University. Her publications include The Islamic Awakening: Religion, Democracy and Modernity (2014) and Why the WestFears Islam: An Exploration of Islam in Western Liberal Democracies (2013). She is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of European Islam (2015).José Casanova is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion, and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. He is the author of Public Religions in the Modern World (1994).
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