Equal before God and Humans?
Lecture Series: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (video recording available)
Religions often face the accusation that their patriarchal structures and traditions leave no space for emancipation.
How do religious Jewish and Muslim women respond to rules that bar them from holding a religious office, discount the value of their testimony in court, and deny them the right to divorce? Do their religious traditions allow for a more emancipatory vision of religious life?
A discussion with Susannah Heschel and Katajun Amirpur. The event is moderated by Hafssa El-Bouhamouchi of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording of the lecture Equal before God and Humans?, 3 May 2018; Jewish Museum Berlin 2018
Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research includes Jewish scholarship on Islam. Her book On Being a Jewish Feminist was one of the very first volumes about Jewish feminist perspectives.
Katajun Amirpur
Katajun Amirpur is a professor of Islamic Studies and deputy director of the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg. Her publications lend new insight to the debates about the role of Islam in Germany.
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Susannah Heschel and Katajun Amirpur; photos: Dartmouth College/private
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Lecture Series 2017/18: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (6)
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Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights
Our lecture series addresses controversial human rights topics arising in various walks of life and examines them from Jewish and Islamic perspectives. For every lecture, we invite two scholars who present their own positions and then engage in a dialogue.
