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key	NMYT9QT3
title	Nexus Of Tradition, Technology And Prosperity In Promoting Female Foeticide
author	Saini, Sarita; Vig, Deepika
item type	Journal article
publication year	2012
date	2012-07
publication title	Golden Research Thoughts (Solapur, Maharashtra, India)
abstract note	Twenty first century dawned in independent India and ushered an era of unlimited growth and opportunities accompanied by some threats to India's social, economic and political systems. The horizons were full of hopes and aspirations. The economy grew; technology exploded and there was relentless growth of the population. But the trickle down effect of development eluded the females resulting in the widening disparity between the two sexes. Technological advancements and the growing prosperity, both, omen of progress, started having their debilitating effects on the fragile balance of desirable sex ratio. The falling sex ratio appeared on the scene making further growth impulses difficult to germinate and flower. Thus, we failed to deliver the desirable and the threats to our well-being and prosperity raised their ugly heads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] BAHAI VIEWPOINT. Bahai is the only religion, which has never had any instance of female foeticide or infanticide because of the religious law of full quality of both men and women. The Bahai teachings provide an insight into the reasons for failure of a religious community to preserve its pristine /spotless purity they are manifold but include the following: 1. The lack of universally accepted source of authoritative interpretation of the words of the founder, with the result that some crucial terms were open to being understood in a variety of ways, thereby giving rise, in certain instances, to a highly discriminatory interpretation; 2. the assignment of unwarranted authority to the views of charismatic religious leaders, who were often unwittingly influenced by the discriminatory culture from which they arose, and whose words were given an authority equal to that of the founder; 3. the admission to the sacred canon of oral traditions, many of which were of questionable validity and accuracy, and which came to possess an authority equivalent to that of the Sacred Text; 4. the unjustified generalizations made from the specific action of the Founder in a particular situation of which all details are not known; 5. the compromises made to the presentation of the new teachings to accommodate prevailing cultural views about the inferiority of women, motivated by the desire to make the religion more palatable to the masses and thus to increase the number of converts; 6. and the vested interests of an exclusively male ecclesiastical establishment in preserving its position assigned to women.
pages	1-9
issue	1
volume	2
language	English
manual tags	WOMEN; ABORTION; SEX RATIO

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