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The XVII Conference of Latin American Religious Alternatives is being held this week in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This event will bring together scholars and researchers from across the continent to talk together about religion, integration, and identity. I will be presenting three papers, all about Islamic feminism. I am pleased to have such a space to discuss new ways of understanding the phenomenon of religion in Latin America and the role of feminism in Latin American religion. \u00a0I want to share some of my personal reflections regarding gender, feminism and religion with you today. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
It is true that today all so-called \u2018major\u2019 religions\u2014Islam, too\u2014are patriarchal and male minded. It would be a fall into denial to say that abuses in the name of religion do not have a concrete impact on the lives of many women around the world. While it is possible to differentiate between what the Qur\u2019an says and the discourse of patriarchy on Islam, the reality is that it is this patriarchy that dominates our understanding of religion.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The revealed messages have been used to reinforce gender oppression in bans on \u201cwomen\u2019s issues\u201d from therapeutic abortion to driving a car. But we know these bans do not come from the holy books themselves, as the revealed messages can support a reading of oppression or liberation. The problems are the historical authority of sexist readings as criteria of truth and the incorporation of androcentrism as the axis in relation to the divine. Sexist readings and androcentrism both give rise to oppression and violence in the name of God.<\/span><\/div>\n
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