Feminism, Law, and Religion

"This valuable book offers powerful new insights into the troubled relations between religion and feminism. The contributors go beyond facile dichotomies to show the paradoxes and complexities of the human condition. Cutting across different religions, the book offers a salutary understanding of how women experience - and often resolve - the tension between faith and feminism. We are on the threshold of a new phase in the politics of religion and gender, both globally and locally." - Ziba Mir-Hosseini, University of London, UK

"The contributors expose relationships between legal idealism, feminist consciousness and religious and spiritual sensibilities that are nuanced and historically evolving. They not only provide pointed responses to secular feminist critiques of religious traditions, they also provide impassioned and caring analyses of ways in which those traditions, particularly when sympathetically interpreted through a feminist lens, can be enlisted in the causes of human liberation and wellbeing, worldwide." -Robin West, Georgetown University, USA

"An advanced insightful exploration of the feminists, both religious and secular. The debates show the differences in values and visions for redeeming religious texts about women, giving them hope to work for their better future in both religious traditions and as made in the image of God."- Journal of Research in Gender Studies