A brief note on terminologies."Religious fundamentalisms" is a greatly contested term, including amongst women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and groups. At a symposium on religious fundamentalisms organised by ARROW at the 2007 Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSH), the symposium chairperson, Michael Tan, introduced "religious exceptionalism ex·cep·tion·al·ism n. 1. The condition of being exceptional or unique. 2. The theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm. " as an alternative term. He defined religious exceptionalism as "the view that one's own religion has a monopoly on truth and the interpretation of 'good,' usually accompanied by a notion that one's own God is the only 'true' God." He added that "religious exceptionalists lobby to impose their values on an entire community, or even country, through public policies and laws." In this book, ARROW retains the use of the term "religious fundamentalisms," given that the book presents a compilation of papers that came out of a symposium using this term (the title was "Religious Fundamentalisms and Sexual and Reproductive Health Within the framework of WHO's definition of health[1] as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene and Rights: A Symposium on the Impact of Catholic, Hindu and Islamic Fundamentalisms on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights"). The paper writers have also used the term "fundamentalisms" and given their own definitions of the term. |
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