About the Book

The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept inappropriate for gaining rights for religious women.

Contents

A Conflict of Rights Claims

Hierarchies of Rights Claims

Theological Challenges to Religious Women’s Rights

The Question of Relativism

The Question of Privacy

The Question of Agency

Religion, Rights and Change

About the Author / Editor

ALISON L. BODEN is a United Church of Christ minister serving as Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University, USA