Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions

Arvind Sharma editor Katherine K Young editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Nov '08

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions cover

A collection of essays by internationally renowned female scholars contesting notions of fundamentalism and examining women's roles in religion.

A collection of essays that contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might converge with women's roles in the various world's religions. It explores fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examines the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism.This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege with women's roles in the various world's religions. The essayists explore fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examine the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism. The essays cover Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The contributors investigate the ways that women "fight back" against fundamentalist conceptions of family, gender roles, doctrinal practices, ritual practices, and God or theistic constructs. The writers reassert and preserve their identities by challenging the static categories of fundamentalism. The essays contain deep and powerful explorations of the intersections of culture, religion, and feminism.

Mention -Book News, February 2009

ISBN: 9780567027498

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

224 pages