Elizabeth M Bucar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1447244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth M Bucar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bucar |
| SIGNATURE | BUCAR E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Museum Exhibit to Protest Symbol: Exploring the Role of Islamic Fashion in the U.S. Public Sphere
Secular Fashion, Religious Dress, and Modest Ambiguity: The Visual Ethics of Indonesian Fashion‐Veiling
This essay offers resources for the development of visual ethics by exploring Islamic fashion‐veiling in one context: contemporary Indonesia. After providing a methodological framework and historical background for the case study, the moral discourse of two aesthetic authorities is discussed via a fashion blogger and print advice literature. The essay identifies (1) how the practice of fashion‐veiling generates norms, (2) what is defined as moral…
The Ethics of Visual Culture
To introduce this set of essays on visual ethics, I address the conceptual and methodological contours, as well as difficult theoretical questions, that might emerge with a visual turn in religious ethics. In addition I situate the work represented in this focus issue within ongoing conversations about moral perception, culture as a topic of normative analysis, and the various roles of visual culture in the moral life
On Comparative Religious Ethics as a Field of Study
This essay is a critical engagement with recent assessments of comparative religious ethics by J ohn K elsay and J ung L ee. Contra K elsay's proposal to return to a neo‐Weberian sociology of religious norm elaboration and justification, the authors argue that comparative religious ethics is and should be practiced as a field of study in active conversation with other fields that consider human flourishing, employing a variety of methods that hav…
Representation of Muslim sexual subjectivities: The hidden ethical judgments of journalistic rhetoric
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
Saving Face: Navigating Land Mines with Ritual Politeness in Iran
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals of the World: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals oftheWorld: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism Elizabeth Bucar and Anne Enke Surgically turning a man into a woman is as easy "as skinning a rabbit" in . . . Trinidad, the tiny town stranded in the middle of the dusty Colorado prairie that . . . has earned the title Sex-Change Capital of the World. —Molly Watson, Evening Standard (London), August 15, 2000 Transsex…
Sexing Comparative Ethics: Bringing Forth Feminist and Gendered Perspectives
This collaborative companion piece, written as a postscript to the three preceding essays, highlights four themes in comparative religious ethics that emerge through our focus on sex and gender: language, embodiment, justice, and critique
Bodies at the Margins: The Case of Transsexuality in Catholic and Shia Ethics
This essay explores the ways in which emerging religious understandings of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have potential for new work in comparative ethics. I focus on the startling diversity of teachings on transsexuality among the Vatican and leading Shia clerics in Iran. While the Vatican rejects SRS as a cure for transsexuality, Iranian clerics not only support decisions to transition to a new sex, they see it as necessary in some cases gi…
The Ambiguity of Moral Excellence: A Response to Aaron Stalnaker's “Virtue as Mastery”
This response draws on Saba Mahmood's work on Muslim subjectivities in order to consider how Stalnaker's conceptualization of virtue might be applied to non‐Confucian sources. I argue that when applied cross‐culturally, Stalnaker's revised definition of “skillful virtue” raises normative and metaethical questions about what counts as a skill versus a mere bodily practice, the process by how skill is acquired, and how we can both allow for the amb…
Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity
Journal Article Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity Get access Elizabeth M. Bucar Elizabeth M. Bucar * *Elizabeth M. Bucar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 109 Foust Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 662-686,…
Methodological Invention as a Constructive Project: Exploring the Production of Ethical Knowledge through the Interaction of Discursive Logics
This article reflects one scholar's attempt to locate herself within emerging ethical methodologies given a specific concern with cross‐cultural women's moral praxis. The field of comparative ethics's debt to past debates over methodology is considered through a typology of three waves of methodological invention. The article goes on to describe a specific research focus on U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shii women that initiated a search for a distin…
Free Speech in Weblogistan? The Offline Consequences of Online Communication
The irruption of Persian-language blogging since 2001, known to its participants as Weblogistan, has been accompanied by enthusiastic claims that weblogs are promoting previously nonexistent forms of expression, thereby rupturing traditional Iranian social, cultural, religious, and political norms. The political scientist Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone juxtaposes Weblogistan against the conditions of theocratic rule as “a public social space that allow…
Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity
Journal Article Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity Get access Elizabeth M. Bucar Elizabeth M. Bucar * *Elizabeth M. Bucar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 109 Foust Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 662-686,…
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals of the World: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals oftheWorld: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism Elizabeth Bucar and Anne Enke Surgically turning a man into a woman is as easy "as skinning a rabbit" in . . . Trinidad, the tiny town stranded in the middle of the dusty Colorado prairie that . . . has earned the title Sex-Change Capital of the World. —Molly Watson, Evening Standard (London), August 15, 2000 Transsex…
Free Speech in Weblogistan? The Offline Consequences of Online Communication
The irruption of Persian-language blogging since 2001, known to its participants as Weblogistan, has been accompanied by enthusiastic claims that weblogs are promoting previously nonexistent forms of expression, thereby rupturing traditional Iranian social, cultural, religious, and political norms. The political scientist Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone juxtaposes Weblogistan against the conditions of theocratic rule as “a public social space that allow…
Representation of Muslim sexual subjectivities: The hidden ethical judgments of journalistic rhetoric
Saving Face: Navigating Land Mines with Ritual Politeness in Iran
Methodological Invention as a Constructive Project: Exploring the Production of Ethical Knowledge through the Interaction of Discursive Logics
This article reflects one scholar's attempt to locate herself within emerging ethical methodologies given a specific concern with cross‐cultural women's moral praxis. The field of comparative ethics's debt to past debates over methodology is considered through a typology of three waves of methodological invention. The article goes on to describe a specific research focus on U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shii women that initiated a search for a distin…
Free Speech in Weblogistan? The Offline Consequences of Online Communication
The irruption of Persian-language blogging since 2001, known to its participants as Weblogistan, has been accompanied by enthusiastic claims that weblogs are promoting previously nonexistent forms of expression, thereby rupturing traditional Iranian social, cultural, religious, and political norms. The political scientist Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone juxtaposes Weblogistan against the conditions of theocratic rule as “a public social space that allow…
Sexing Comparative Ethics: Bringing Forth Feminist and Gendered Perspectives
This collaborative companion piece, written as a postscript to the three preceding essays, highlights four themes in comparative religious ethics that emerge through our focus on sex and gender: language, embodiment, justice, and critique
Bodies at the Margins: The Case of Transsexuality in Catholic and Shia Ethics
This essay explores the ways in which emerging religious understandings of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have potential for new work in comparative ethics. I focus on the startling diversity of teachings on transsexuality among the Vatican and leading Shia clerics in Iran. While the Vatican rejects SRS as a cure for transsexuality, Iranian clerics not only support decisions to transition to a new sex, they see it as necessary in some cases gi…
The Ambiguity of Moral Excellence: A Response to Aaron Stalnaker's “Virtue as Mastery”
This response draws on Saba Mahmood's work on Muslim subjectivities in order to consider how Stalnaker's conceptualization of virtue might be applied to non‐Confucian sources. I argue that when applied cross‐culturally, Stalnaker's revised definition of “skillful virtue” raises normative and metaethical questions about what counts as a skill versus a mere bodily practice, the process by how skill is acquired, and how we can both allow for the amb…
Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity
Journal Article Dianomy: Understanding Religious Women's Moral Agency as Creative Conformity Get access Elizabeth M. Bucar Elizabeth M. Bucar * *Elizabeth M. Bucar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 109 Foust Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 662-686,…
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals of the World: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism
Unlikely Sex Change Capitals oftheWorld: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism Elizabeth Bucar and Anne Enke Surgically turning a man into a woman is as easy "as skinning a rabbit" in . . . Trinidad, the tiny town stranded in the middle of the dusty Colorado prairie that . . . has earned the title Sex-Change Capital of the World. —Molly Watson, Evening Standard (London), August 15, 2000 Transsex…
Representation of Muslim sexual subjectivities: The hidden ethical judgments of journalistic rhetoric
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
Saving Face: Navigating Land Mines with Ritual Politeness in Iran
On Comparative Religious Ethics as a Field of Study
This essay is a critical engagement with recent assessments of comparative religious ethics by J ohn K elsay and J ung L ee. Contra K elsay's proposal to return to a neo‐Weberian sociology of religious norm elaboration and justification, the authors argue that comparative religious ethics is and should be practiced as a field of study in active conversation with other fields that consider human flourishing, employing a variety of methods that hav…
Secular Fashion, Religious Dress, and Modest Ambiguity: The Visual Ethics of Indonesian Fashion‐Veiling
This essay offers resources for the development of visual ethics by exploring Islamic fashion‐veiling in one context: contemporary Indonesia. After providing a methodological framework and historical background for the case study, the moral discourse of two aesthetic authorities is discussed via a fashion blogger and print advice literature. The essay identifies (1) how the practice of fashion‐veiling generates norms, (2) what is defined as moral…
The Ethics of Visual Culture
To introduce this set of essays on visual ethics, I address the conceptual and methodological contours, as well as difficult theoretical questions, that might emerge with a visual turn in religious ethics. In addition I situate the work represented in this focus issue within ongoing conversations about moral perception, culture as a topic of normative analysis, and the various roles of visual culture in the moral life
From Museum Exhibit to Protest Symbol: Exploring the Role of Islamic Fashion in the U.S. Public Sphere
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