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dc.contributor.authorDuderija, Adis
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-03T00:26:01Z
dc.date.available2018-01-03T00:26:01Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1569-2078
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/356133
dc.description.abstractIn this article, I discuss the tensions between patriarchal and non-patriarchal interpretations of the Islamic tradition and some of the factors which contribute to the engendering of both. In order to contextualize the main discussion in the first part of the article, I outline the historical tensions between the study of religion and gender in general. The question of whether the culturally organizing function of gender is to be inevitably linked to the formation and perpetuation of patriarchal religion in general, and Islam in particular, is explored, or whether religion, including the case of Islam, can be a source of non-patriarchal values and ethics. In the second part, I discuss some of the most prominent factors which contribute to patriarchal interpretations of the Islamic tradition by grouping them, from the perspective of the individual interpreter, into those which pertain to personal opinion regarding the nature of two genders, Sitz im Leben, and interpretational methodology (manhaj). In the context of non-patriarchal interpretations of the Islamic tradition, I discuss its main delineating features and show, by using the work of a contemporary reformist Iranian scholar, H. Y. Eshkevari (b. 1949/1950), how the contemporary non-patriarchal interpretations of the Islamic tradition are sensitive to how both patriarchy and gender influence the process of interpretation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBrill
dc.publisher.urihttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15692086-12341329
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom257
dc.relation.ispartofpageto278
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHawwa
dc.relation.ispartofvolume15
dc.subject.fieldofresearchStudies in religious traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode500407
dc.titleTensions between the Study of Gender and Religion: The Case of Patriarchal and Non-Patriarchal Interpretations of the Islamic Tradition
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2017 Brill Academic Publishers. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
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