Search for dissertations about: "Human rights islam"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Human rights islam.

  2. 1. Women's human rights and Islam : A Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation

    Author : Jonas Svensson; Jan Hjärpe; Ann Elizabeth Mayer; Islamologi Lunds universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Human rights; gender; Islam; Fatima Mernissi; Riffat Hassan; A.A. an-Na‘im; Islamology; Islamologi; Religionsvetenskap; Study of Religions;

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  4. 2. Women's Human Rights and Islam : a Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation

    Author : Jonas Svensson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Islamology; History of Religions; Islam; human rights; women’s human rights; Women’s Convention; CEDAW; gender; globalisation; Qur’an; hadith; historiography; Riffat Hassan; Fatima Mernissi; History; Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na‘im.; Historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : The dissertation focuses on interpretations of Islam that claim compatibility with international human rights norms in the context of women’s rights. These interpretations are seen as parts of an on-going contemporary international debate on women’s human rights and Islam that engages Muslims as well as non-Muslims. READ MORE

  5. 3. Muslim Rights and Plights. The Religious Liberty Situation of a Minority in Sweden

    Author : Jonas Alwall; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Religious Culture; Religious Minorities; Muslims; Islam; Integration; Immigrant Policy; Immigration; Minority Rights; Religious liberty; Human Rights; Teologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the religious liberty situation of the Muslim minority in Sweden. The Muslim minority has grown considerably in recent decades as a consequence of labour and refugee immigration of a large scale, which has caused a change in Swedish society from an etnically, culturally and religously homogeneous situation to one of a significant heterogeneity. READ MORE

  6. 4. Piety and Politics : Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia

    Author : Ann Kull; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nurcholish Madjid; Indonesia; takwa; Islam; context; ijtihad; Paramadina; tolerance; pluralism; gender; Sufism; spirituality; democracy; human rights; Pancasila; Ibn Taymiyya; education; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. READ MORE

  7. 5. Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore

    Author : Anthony Fiscella; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Unitarian Universalist Association; Decolonialism; Inclusivity; Democracy; Human rights; Un Freedom; Unfreedom; Freedom; Liberation; Liberty; UUA; MOVE Organization; Philadelphia; Virginia; Taqwacore; Critical Religion Theory; History of religion; Islam; American Muslims; Anarchism; Anarchists; Punk rock; Hardcore; Social Movements; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Jiddu Krishnamurti; Zen; Imperialism; Cognitive dissonance; Racism; Indigenous peoples; First Nations; Colonialism; Critical pedagogy; Critical race studies;

    Abstract : Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). READ MORE