RELIGIOUS ‘RELATIONALITY’ AS AN ETHICAL RESOURCE
Keywords:
ETHICS, Religion, RELATIONALITYAbstract
The paper probes the notion of ‘relationality’ as a possible ethical resource, having resonance in both Hindu religious thought, as well as in particular strands of feminist thinking. Drawing from an earlier ethnographic study[1] on Muslim women who follow the bodily practice of veiling, this paper situates the observations emerging from that particular ethnographic context within a discussion of religious ethics and a framework of constructed religious alterity.
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