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Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context. Edited by Teresa Berger. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. xv + 255 pp. $24.95 (paper).
A recent New York Times story demonstrates the global nature of feminist religious rituals as well as the devastating circumstances that generate them.
According to the news story, a woman named Cemse Allak of Yaylim, Turkey, was buried in a local cemetery in July after suffering a lingering death from stoning. She was stoned by the villagers, including her family, who were bent on restoring their honor damaged by her becoming pregnant outside of marriage. Unfortunately, her story is not unusual. Honor killings are still commonplace in remote Turkish villages, in spite of new Turkish human rights laws.
What makes Cemse Allak's death unusual is not...