Who Speaks for Peace? Women and Interreligious Peacemaking

Many religious communities continue to prioritize male leadership, to the exclusion of women in the most public interfaith roles, including interreligious dialogues and peacemaking. By looking at diverse models of interfaith work, this article highlights the alternative spaces in which women have be...

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Published in:Interreligious studies and intercultural theology
Main Author: Hill Fletcher, Jeannine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publishing Ltd [2017]
In: Interreligious studies and intercultural theology
Further subjects:B Women
B peace building
B Political
B interreligious cooperation
B models of interreligious dialogue
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Summary:Many religious communities continue to prioritize male leadership, to the exclusion of women in the most public interfaith roles, including interreligious dialogues and peacemaking. By looking at diverse models of interfaith work, this article highlights the alternative spaces in which women have been agents of peacemaking and peacebuilding. If "interreligious peacemaking" is conceptualized as complex actors embedded in localized material, social and political realities struggling across religious lines in the promotion of human well-being, then we might see more clearly women already at work.
ISSN:2397-348X
Contains:Enthalten in: Interreligious studies and intercultural theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/isit.31725