Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
Jocelyne Cesari and José Casanova
Abstract
This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Musl ... More
This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.
Keywords:
democracy,
religion,
secularism,
Muslim women rights,
law,
gender inequality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198788553 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198788553.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jocelyne Cesari, editor
Professor of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham; Senior Research fellow, Georgetown University's Berkley Center
José Casanova, editor
Professor at the Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
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