T&t Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Peters Rebecca Todd
T&t Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Peters Rebecca Todd This volume introduces students to the history of cultural and theological responses to…
Specifikacia T&t Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Peters Rebecca Todd
T&t Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Peters Rebecca Todd
This volume introduces students to the history of cultural and theological responses to abortion as background for understanding a diversity of ethical positions in contemporary Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings. American abortion politics and culture wars have been dominated by Christian voices; nevertheless, Jewish and Muslim abortion ethics engage many of the same issues from different cultural and religious perspectives. Politicized debates about abortion are often presented in terms of a binary rhetoric of prolife versus prochoice; however, this collection of essays shows how that binary often breaks down when abortion is seen from different religious perspectives and in light of the voices of women themselves.While abortion is a global phenomenon, this volume focuses on the U.S. context.
Finally, this volume presents important examples of recent social scientific