Women, Ordination, and a Buddhist Perspective: A Violation of Rights?
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Women, Ordination, and a Buddhist Perspective: A Violation of Rights? - Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Carola Roloff; Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg; Germany |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies; Gender Studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | women and religion; women's rights; human rights; gender justice |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Women and Religion |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | By taking women’s ordination – a main gender issue debated in Buddhism – as an example, I reason why discrimination against women in religion not only violates women’s human rights but also basic Buddhist principles such as non-violence. I question whether from a Buddhist perspective religion and rights are two mutually exclusive terms, and then discuss two areas of tension: a tension between religious and secular law on the one hand and a tension between religious freedom and gender equality on the other. Based on this, I analyze how the dynamics of these areas of tension and gender issues could become a driving force for interreligious dialogue and for dialogue between religions and secular societies. In many world religions, women are discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens – Buddhism does not constitute an exception. This will be demonstrated in the context of the Buddha’s teaching, on the one hand, and of contemporary societies, on the other hand. A special focus lies on the compatibility of Buddhism with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution, the so-called Basic Law, of the Federal Republic of Germany. Human rights play an important role in this postmodern world. Therefore religions are called upon to take a stand on it. Although the term “human rights” is not part of the Buddhist vocabulary, the basic idea of human rights is not alien to Buddhism (Schmidt-Leukel 2010; Tsedroen 2010; Roloff 2015). |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Feb-2020 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38843 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.38843 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |