Creative Conformity by Elizabeth M Bucar
Catholic Christianity and Shi'a Islam are two religious traditions that, genenerally speaking, have greeted feminism and feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. This is especially the case at the level of clerical pronouncements, where papal encyclicals and Ayatollah fatwas are assumed to limit the freedom of Catholic and Shi'a women, respectively. In this highly original work in comparative, cross-cultural ethics Liz Bucar explores how several women within these two traditions adopt strategies of feminist politics to respond to moral issues in their lives. Specifically, Bucar examines how eleven women understand the ethical teachings of their respective religious leaders: Pope John Paul I and Ayatollah Khumayni. What do these two leaders say about the role of women--what clerical rhetoric do they espouse--and how do these women accommodate these teachings? Using scriptural analysis and multiple interviews Bucar lays out comparisons over five core chapters. In one chapter she looks at moral exemplars, exploring how women from both traditions recast clerical rhetoric about moral role models into a brand of feminist politics. In another chapter she focuses on the clerical rhetoric of motherhood and childrearing, and how women in the two traditions expand that teaching into a feminist understanding of procreation. Thus her emphasis on creative conformity these eleven women manage to remain within the boundaries of their religious traditions, while interpreting clerical teachings in politically creative and feminist ways.-
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability
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Love, Human and Divine
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The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II
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Loyal Dissent
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Radical Sufficiency
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Art and Moral Change
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The Moral Vision of Pope Francis
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Sacred and Social
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Rethinking Justice in Catholic Social Thought
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Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction
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The Acting Person and Christian Moral Life
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United States Welfare Policy
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The Context of Casuistry
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Bridging the Sacred and the Secular
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Law's Virtues
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Keeping Faith with Human Rights
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Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy
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Moral Evil
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Sex, Violence, and Justice
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The Ethics of Aquinas
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All God's Animals
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Diverse Voices in Modern US Moral Theology
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A Culture of Engagement
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Overcoming Our Evil
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Hope for Common Ground
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Human Rights in a Divided World
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Beyond Virtue Ethics
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Growing in Virtue
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Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck
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The Fullness of Free Time
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John Cuthbert Ford, SJ
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On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics
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A Call to Fidelity
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Beyond Biology
This comparative study makes a valuable contribution to feminist efforts to shake up binary assumptions about what it means to be empowered or oppressed-- Kate McCarthy Religious Studies Review
Elizabeth M. Bucar is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the coeditor of Does Human Rights Need God?
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| ISBN 13 | 9781589017399 |
| ISBN 10 | 1589017390 |
| Title | Creative Conformity |
| Author | Elizabeth M Bucar |
| Series | Moral Traditions Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Catholic Press Association, First Time Author of a Book (United States)., Winner of Award for Excellence (United States). |
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