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25 mars 2014 · A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women. And in nations that accept or even ...
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25 mars 2014 · In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing...
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Carter calls discrimination and abuse of women and girls "the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge" of our time, and the book covers a wide range of problems including infanticide and selective abortion of female fetuses; female genital mutilation; rape, especially as a weapon of war; human trafficking of women and girls for sex; child ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the book as "a tour de force of the global abuse and manipulation of women" and commended Carter's presentation of statistical data. Marianne Schnall writes that Carter "represents an important and growing trend of men advocating against violence against women and supporting women's equality." The Adventist maga...
C-SPAN: A Call to ActionPresident Jimmy Carter speaks on A Call to Actionat Princeton University- Jimmy Carter
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16 mars 2014 · Large-scale crimes against women enumerated in "A Call to Action" include: slavery, genital cutting, infanticide, child marriage, rape, honor killings, and economic and social deprivation. He calls on everyone to study these violations of basic moral values and take corrective action.
25 mars 2014 · A Call To Action Women, Religion, Violence, and Power will help readers distinguished between proclaimed Christians who embrace money, power, hatred, racism, violence and criminality from Christians who embrace legal justice, social intelligence, mercy, forgiveness, kindness and love.
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. J. Carter. Published 2014. Political Science, Sociology. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report is current.
4 janv. 2015 · A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter, Simon and Schuster, 2014 (ISBN 978‐1‐4767‐7395‐7), x + 211 pp., $28 - Blumenthal - 2015 - Reviews in Religion & Theology - Wiley Online Library.
