Motherhood in Christianity and Islam

Critiques, Realities, and Possibilities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14760331
AutoresIrene Oh (0000-0003-2295-6030, George Washington University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas638-653
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9795.2010.00456.x
OpenAlexW1536983877
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas13

Common experiences of mothering offer profound critiques of maternal ethical norms found in both Christianity and Islam. The familiar responsibilities of caring for children, assumed by the majority of Christian and Muslim women, provide the basis for reassessing sacrificial and selfless love, protesting unjust religious and political systems, and dismantling romanticized notions of childcare. As a distinctive category of women's experience, motherhood may offer valuable perspectives necessary for remedying injustices that afflict mothers and children in particular, as well as for developing cross‐cultural understandings of justice in general

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