Women, religion and security

Seedat, Fatima

doi:10.1080/10130950.2017.1294842

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“…Statistics in South Africa indicate exacerbated levels of intimate partner violence which confirm feminist arguments that women experience heightened threats to their security in personal relationships, sufficient to warrant urgent attention and focused resources to ensure their collective security (Boonzaier 2005). While the scholarship is still emerging, recent research exploring the connection between religion and women's security indicate that marriage, sexuality and dynamics of the family unit feature strongly amongst women's security concerns (Seedat 2016;Khan 2016;Petersen 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Secure between God and man: peace, tranquility and sexuality through the pietistic aspirations of believing women

Khan

Seedat

2017

J. Study Relig.

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This paper draws on a qualitative case study of the intersections of gender, religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights of Muslim wives on the east coast of South Africa. Under analysis are the ways in which women negotiate personal and domestic conflicts of married life guided by the religious aspiration to please God and secure a place in Heaven. This is achieved in part through pleasing their husband through sexual availability regardless of personal desire and, in their view, thereby ensuring a peaceful home. While their negotiations in the home expand our ideas of peace-making, their sexual choices through the course of peace-making raise ethical concerns on consent and mutuality. Taking up Kecia Ali's argument for a 'just ethics of sexual intimacy' alongside Saba Mahmood's analysis of pietistic agency and African feminist analysis of the place of domestic peace in human security, the paper highlights the interplay of choice and obligation in the negotiation of the pietistic aspiration of peace and tranquillity in the home.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Secure between God and man: peace, tranquility and sexuality through the pietistic aspirations of believing women

Khan

Seedat

2017

J. Study Relig.

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“…These include Chitando and Tarusarira (2019), Green et al (2018) and Tschudin et al (2018). A special issue of the journal Agenda (Seedat 2016) focused on the theme of 'Women, Religion and Security'. Although it is beyond the scope of this chapter to review these publications, some key points can be noted.…”

Section: Religion and Human Security In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tarusarira¹,

Chitando²

2020

Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa

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“…On the positive side of the equation, women have been dissuaders and preventers of radicalization and recruitment. (Oudraat and Brown 2016, 3) The focus on human security has also facilitated analysing the extent to which religion threatens women's security in everyday life (Seedat 2016).…”

Section: Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%