Religion, State Power, and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis

Hajjar, Lisa

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“…However, Islamatization alone is so highly collinear with many of the other explanatory variables that a multivariate analysis becomes impossible. Given the wide range of literature dealing with democracy and gender issues in the Islamic world, this should not be a surprise (Hajjar 2004; Inglehart and Norris 2003; Inglehart, Norris, and Welzel 2002). A firm cross‐national answer to the impact of religious affiliation on domestic violence will have to await a serious investment of resources into data collection in areas of the world where these data are not currently being collected or are limited in other ways.…”

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A Cross-National Exploration of the Conditions that Produce Interpersonal Violence

Asal

Brown

2010

Politics &Amp; Policy

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In this article we take advantage of newly available data provided by WomanStats to suggest (1) a quantifiable approach to scaling the prevalence of interpersonal violence; and (2) a model of those factors that account for different levels of interpersonal violence crossnationally. We specifically draw from the human rights literature to determine which economic, cultural, and political factors explain different levels of interpersonal violence globally today. We find that increasing levels of democracy has a dampening effect on interpersonal violence, while increasing levels of economic inequality increases interpersonal violence levels. However, other common explanatory factors, notably women's empowerment through workforce and political inclusion, and various cultural factors show little to no effect. En este artículo aprovechamos nueva información disponible en WomanStats (Estadísticas de la Mujer) para proponer: (1) un enfoque cuantitativo que construye escalas de la prevalencia de la violencia interpersonal a nivel internacional y;(2) un modelo de aquellos factores que toman en cuenta diferentes niveles de violencia interpersonal a nivel internacional. Específicamente, basados en la literatura sobre derechos humanos, determinamos cuales factores económicos, culturales, y políticos explican diferentes niveles actuales de violencia interpersonal a una escala global. Encontramos que crecientes niveles de democracia tienen un efecto reductor en la violencia interpersonal, mientras que crecientes niveles de inequidad económica incrementan los niveles de violencia interpersonal. Sin embargo, encontramos que otros factores comunes que los explicarían, notablemente el empoderamiento de las

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“…The culture that is most often currently tied to issues of patriarchy, gender inequality, and domestic violence is Islam, particularly the most conservative forms (Hajjar 2004; Inglehart and Norris 2003; Inglehart, Norris, and Welzel 2002). Hajjar (2004, 32) argues that…”

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A Cross-National Exploration of the Conditions that Produce Interpersonal Violence

Asal

Brown

2010

Politics &Amp; Policy

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“…Indeed, laws protecting women's rights in the family and laws against domestic violence in particular may "constitute the quintessential challenge to the 'universality' of human rights" by emphasizing values of social stability, male authority, and adherence to tradition or religious custom. Yet even in the Muslim world, the effects of Islam's religious impact on the national penetration of global norms varies systematically by variations in state formations-whether religion is communalized (e.g., Israel, Nigeria, India), nationalized (e.g., Pakistan), or theocratized (e.g., Iran) (Hajjar 2004b).…”

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Globalization of Law

Halliday¹,

Osinsky²

2006

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Globalization of law may be defined as the worldwide progression of transnational legal structures and discourses along the dimensions of extensity, intensity, velocity, and impact. We propose that a theory of the global penetration of law will require at least four elements-actors, mechanisms, power, and structures and arenas. A comparison of four approaches to globalization and law-world polity, world systems, postcolonial globalism, and law and economic development-indicates considerable variation in perceived outcomes and gaps in explanation, but with possible complementarities in both outcomes and explanatory factors. Research demonstrates that globalization is variably contested in several domains of research on law: (a) the construction and regulation of global markets, (b) crimes against humanity and genocide, (c) the diffusion of political liberalism and constitutionalism, and (d) the institutionalization of women's rights. We propose that the farther globalizing legal norms and practices are located from core local cultural institutions and beliefs, the less likely global norms will provoke explicit contestation and confrontation. Future research will be productively directed to where and how global law originates, how and when global norms and law are transmitted and enforced, and how global-local settlements are negotiated. GLOBALIZATION OF LAW 449 initially contextualized definitions, interpretations, diagnoses, frames, archaeologies, genealogies, and extrapolations in accord with the universality inherent in the globalization discourse. An arena may be said to be globalized when there is a coincidence of structural and discursive elements. Variation in the advance of globalization occurs in both structural and discursive elements, which may be arrayed along dimensions of extensity (i.e., breadth of inclusion of nation-states, policy domains within states), intensity (i.e., how deeply a global influence penetrates inside states, societies, and consciousnesses), velocity (i.e., how rapid the flow of a globalizing content), and impact (i.e., the degree of change effected directly or indirectly by a global encounter) (Held et al. 1999). Thus, a highly globalized domain includes structural changes that are fast moving and extensive and that penetrate intensively into a society with strong impact. A highly globalized domain is dominated by discourses that are universalized and that obtain consensus deep within adopter societies.

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“…In the vast scholarly literature written on the subject (just to mention), very divergent opinions are expressed. Hajjar, in an influential 2004 study, maintained that the use of Muslim Shari'a law creates some commonalities in gender and family relations in Muslim societies, notably the sanctioning and maintenance of male authority over female relatives.…”

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Multivariate analyses of the global acceptability rates of male intimate partner violence (IPV) against women based on World Values Survey data

Tausch

2019

Health Planning & Management

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Summary Major international organizations like UN Women and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that nowadays, more than one‐third of all women in the world suffer male intimate partner violence (IPV) at some point in their lives and that eliminating the societal acceptancy of that violence is a major element in combatting it. While there is consensus that IPV has disastrous public health consequences, so far, little is known about the drivers of IPV acceptability rates. This article therefore analyzes available global opinion data from the World Values Survey (WVS) project in 72 countries of the world, representing some four‐fifths of the global population. Existing IPV data published prior to this study already suggested that the highest global incidence of IPV is to be found in sub‐Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Andean Latin America. Neoliberal political economy in the tradition of Hayek maintained for a long time that the disrespect of property rights and traditional family values can have disastrous social and economic effects. Our study renders support for this theory: On the basis of a variety of statistical analyses, including a factor analysis of 45 key items from the WVS data, we conclude that apart from attitudes on gender equality, the disrespect of property rights and traditional family values, analyzed by Hayek, emerge as the major drivers of high acceptability rates of IPV. Mali, Serbia, Montenegro, Zambia, Burkina Faso, India, the Philippines, Rwanda, Egypt, and Algeria are on top of this list of global rates of IPV acceptability.

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Religion, State Power, and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

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A Cross-National Exploration of the Conditions that Produce Interpersonal Violence

A Cross-National Exploration of the Conditions that Produce Interpersonal Violence

Globalization of Law

Multivariate analyses of the global acceptability rates of male intimate partner violence (IPV) against women based on World Values Survey data

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