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REIMAGINING FAITH AND FEMINISM
Dania Suleman
Translated by Nouha Gorani-Homad
Non-Fiction, Law, Religion, Sociology
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This concise and accessible essay offers a fresh perspective that acknowledges the empowering role religion can play in a woman’s life, while exploring meaningful ways to reconcile gender equality with freedom of religion.
Dania skillfully weaves together legal analysis, feminist theology and sociological studies and analyses legal challenges in terms of the necessary balance between protecting women’s rights and religious freedom. She draws on the work of postcolonial feminist theologians who explore how religious texts have been reinterpreted to be more inclusive of women. She shows the positive impact of faith-based communities within western societies, especially the social integration of immigrant communities that fight biases and prejudices against religious minorities and religious women.
Reviews
Reviews of the French version:
“A brilliantly written essay by legal scholar Dania Suleman. I learned a great deal from her precise and nuanced argument surrounding the difficult reconciliation between religious freedom and gender equality, particularly through the prism of law.” —Léa Clermont-Dion, author, documentarist and post-doctoral researcher in Art and Education at Concordia University
“An essential contribution to a general understanding of a ‘problem’ that isn't one. A work that succinctly and rationally deconstructs the socio-political and judicial contradictions that underlie the critical discourse on accommodations, religious symbols and the emancipation of women in their religious faith in the West.” —Mahdi Saoula, lawyer at Raby Dube Le Borgne avocats
Book Details
Pub Date: September 2025
Trade Paperback
130 pages
Print ISBN 9781553807346
E-book ISBN 9781553807353
5” x 8”
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