Mysticism, Despair, and Progress

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kselman
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
George Sand ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Material Progress ◽  
Status Of Women

This chapter traces the complicated religious journey of George Sand, from an unorthodox education guided by her free-thinking grandmother to a mystical Catholicism while an adolescent, and finally to a form of social Christianity as an adult. It links Sand’s evolving religious ideas to her tumultuous personal life and her radical positions on social institutions, in particular marriage and the status of women. Although she moved away from Catholicism Sand continued to believe in a benevolent but inscrutable God who oversaw a universe marked by spiritual and material progress. This chapter presents Sand’s life as exemplifying the religion of humanitarianism that emerged in the post-revolutionary era.

The Status of Women in Alaska

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Caiazza ◽  
April Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The Status of Women in Wisconsin

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Caiazza ◽  
April Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The Status of Women & Girls in New Haven, Connecticut

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hess ◽  
Rhiana Gunn-Wright ◽  
Claudia Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Haven ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

On the Development of Islamic Jurisprudence

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Current State ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Islam And Democracy

This article examines the state of Islamic jurisprudence with regard to many sensitive issues, such as the status of women and minorities in Islam, Islam and Democracy, hudud punishments. The author explores the current state of Islamic discourse on jurisprudence and identifies three approaches-traditional, secular and reformist. The paper explores the positions of the traditional ulama and the reformist muj­tahids on the mentioned topics and finds the reformist position more sensible and closer to the position of ihe Qur'an and Sunnah. This paper while advocating neo-ijtihad, makes an impressive case for the merit???? and Islamic credibility of the reformist jurisprudence.

Women and Agency in Bankim’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Tagore’s The Home and The World

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manju Dhariwal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Status Of Women

Written almost half a century apart, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) and The Home and the World (1916) can be read as women centric texts written in colonial India. The plot of both the texts is set in Bengal, the cultural and political centre of colonial India. Rajmohan’s Wife, arguably the first Indian English novel, is one of the first novels to realistically represent ‘Woman’ in the nineteenth century. Set in a newly emerging society of India, it provides an insight into the status of women, their susceptibility and dependence on men. The Home and the World, written at the height of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, presents its woman protagonist in a much progressive space. The paper closely examines these two texts and argues that women enact their agency in relational spaces which leads to the process of their ‘becoming’. The paper analyses this journey of the progress of the self, which starts with Matangini and culminates in Bimala. The paper concludes that women’s journey to emancipation is symbolic of the journey of the nation to independence.

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