Christmas in the Room

Gender, Conflict, and Compromise in Multi-Religious Domestic Space

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ID3499563
AuthorsK Mehta (0000-0003-2786-3909, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue6
Pages281
Publication date2020-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11060281
OpenAlexW3034445096
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Interfaith relationships offer particular potential for creating religious coexistence; they also play out very differently in domestic space than in public and civic spaces, with the result that interfaith marriage becomes an important, yet unique, site of religious cooperation, co-existence, and conflict. The article argues that examinations of interfaith families must take three factors into account, each of which involves careful attention to the particular power dynamics of the family in question. First, scholars must think about the broader context in which the interfaith family has come to exist. Second, scholars must consider that the emotional and power dynamics of domestic space often have little in common with the compromises and power dynamics of public space. Lastly, while gender is not generally a key category of analysis for thinking about interfaith encounters in public space, gender, both as it shapes power dynamics and as it drives assumptions about childrearing and domestic labor, shapes interfaith family life and requires attendant scholarly attention

Compromise · Geography · Political science · Public space · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Islamic Studies and History · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology

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