Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts

by Na Na

Book Overview

In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably authorized by religion has been central to these movements. At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312228120
• ISBN13: 9780312228125
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"