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Gendered Expressions of Grief

Greenberg, Dina
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Greenberg, Dina
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grief
gender
Islamic ethics
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Community ethics
Lifestyle ethics
Social ethics
Family ethics
Sexual orientation/gender
Education and ethics
Intercultural and contextual theologies
Gender and theology
Feminist theologies
Liberation theologies
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Islamic Ethics
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Beliefs and customs surrounding death, funeral rites, and mourning provide a window into a society’s most deeply held values. In the monotheistic faith of Islam, eschatology – belief in the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-din) and resurrection (al-qiyama) – underlies many practices. Public mourning rituals that commemorate the deaths of saints and martyrs are closely linked to the concept of salvation in Islam. The gendered discourse of Islam is particularly relevant to practices surrounding death, burial, mourning, and commemoration of the deaths of martyrs. This study attempts to provide a broad historical context against which to analyze the moral, spiritual, religious, aesthetic, and political factors affecting women’s participation in or exclusion from funeral rites and mourning practices, from antiquity to contemporary times.
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2007
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