Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism: Negotiating Modernity in a Globalized World

✍ Scribed by Patricia Madigan

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Series: Religions and Discourse 53
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a historical-theological approach to understanding the complex relationships among gender, religion, economics and politics in a global context, with particular reference to Islam and Catholicism as two worldwide, culturally diverse and patriarchal religious traditions. It looks at ways in which Catholic and Muslim women, both within and between their respective traditions, are critiquing fundamentalist theological and cultural positions and reclaiming their rightful place within the life of their religious traditions. In so doing, it argues that they offer to their respective religious communities, and beyond, a holistic way of negotiating the impact of modernity in a globalized world. The final chapter of the book gives voice to some Australian Muslim and Catholic women who, at a local level, reflect many of the overall concerns of women who find themselves at the cutting edge of their respective religious tradition’s negotiation of modernity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements vii
CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1
CHAPTER TWO The Dynamics of Islamic Fundamentalism 29
CHAPTER THREE The Dynamics of Catholic Fundamentalism 89
CHAPTER FOUR Economics, Gender and Neo-patriarchy 155
CHAPTER FIVE Muslim and Catholic Feminist Responses to Fundamentalism 209
CHAPTER SIX Sydney Women Speak: Results of Survey 277
Conclusion 303
Bibliography 307
Index 329