Fundamentalism And Women In World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 056702749X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions written by Arvind Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : C. Howland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107389
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women written by C. Howland and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.

Author : Maxine L. Margolis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134039
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Fundamentalism written by Maxine L. Margolis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women

Author : Betty A. DeBerg
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547117
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ungodly Women written by Betty A. DeBerg and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about gender roles and social conventions. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills that important gap, analyzing the roots and character of fundamentalism in light of rapid changes and severe disruptions in gender-role ideology and actual social behavior in America between 1880 and 1930. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism."--Back cover.

Author : Brenda E. Brasher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524689
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godly Women written by Brenda E. Brasher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998 Fundamentalist women are often depicted as dedicated to furthering the goals and ideas of fundamentalist men and thus of ancillary importance to the movement as a whole. Godly Women, Brenda Brasher's groundbreaking ethnographic study, reveals the paradox that fundamentalist women can be powerful people in a religious cosmos generally understood to be organized around their disempowerment. Brasher spent six months as an active participant in two Christian fundamentalist congregations to study firsthand the power of fundamentalist women. In addition to the narrow set of religious beliefs that constitute each congregation, she discovered that gender functions as a sacred partition which literally divides the congregation in two, establishing parallel religious worlds. The first of these worlds is led by men and encompasses overall congregational life; the second is a world composed of and led solely by women. Brasher explores how and why women become involved in this highly gendered religious world by examining women's ministries, Bible study groups, and conversion narratives. She discovers that women-only activities create and sustain a parallel symbolic world within and among congregations, which improves women's ability to direct the course of their lives and empowers them in their relationships with others. The women develop intimate social networks that act as a resource for those in distress and provide the basis for political coalition when women wish to alter the patterns of congregational life. Brasher's study sheds new light on the ideas and faith experiences of fundamentalist women, revealing that the religiosity they develop is not as disempowering as one might think. Brenda Brasher is an assistant professor of religion at Mount Union College.

Author : Shahin Gerami
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113650916X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Fundamentalism written by Shahin Gerami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, the surge of religious fundamentalism in the United States and in the Muslim world has resulted in many studies of the status of women and other family issues. This volume is a cross-cultural study of women's social status in Iran, Egypt, and in the U.S. during different stages of religious fundamentalism. In each of these countries, women have been active participants in fundamentalist movements, and this study shows that such participation enables women to reexamine their relationship to power in the family and in society and increase their group solidarity and feminist consciousness. The author combined quantitative, historical, and interview techniques in her analysis, gathering data by administering a questionnaire to middle-class women in the three countries. In Iran, she interviewed selected women leaders about future gender roles in the Islamic Republic. Students in women's studies, Middle Eastern culture, religion, history, sociology, and psychology, and political science will be interested in this publication.

Author : Kathleen M Dugan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567025432
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Women in World Relig written by Kathleen M Dugan and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might converge with women's roles in the various world's religions.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791429679
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annual Review of Women in World Religions written by Arvind Sharma and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forum discusses secularism, fundamentalism, feminism, and other contemporary trends impacting on women and religion.

Author : Lucinda J. Peach
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and World Religions written by Lucinda J. Peach and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a number of different articles and essays that focus on women as active agents of their spiritual lives--a topic that is often overlooked in most other world religion books. It explores how women from many parts of the world have thought about, acted, and have been treated as members of a religious tradition. Investigates how women of a variety of religious traditions (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, etc.) practice their religion, how their beliefs differ from men, and how they have carved out their own place within their religious tradition. For anyone interested in how women are shaped by and how they shape the various world religions.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420317
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annual Review of Women in World Religions written by Arvind Sharma and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as a mirror captures a large area within its small limit, this journal reflects the otherwise far-ranging and far-reaching phenomena that are categorized as "women and religion." The Annual Review of Women in World Religions has been conceived as a forum for the latest historical and anthropological research on women in all religions. It is also a form for discussion of contemporary trends, such as the influence of secularism, fundamentalism, or feminism on women and religion. Accordingly, it contributes to the on-going project to add to our basic knowledge about women, and helps evaluate the past as well as the present through insights generated by gender studies today. Within the boundaries of academic scholarship, the editors seek to include the research of those who are both inside and outside the traditions. Moreover, the book encourages women and men of all beliefs to participate in the on-going dialogue which it represents and promotes. This journal is polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional in its approach to the study of women and religion. It not only allows the comparative dimension to appear in bolder relief, but also helps to establish a dialogue between the two solitudes of humanistic and social scientific studies in the field. Volume III contains the following essays: Rabi'ah as Mystic, Muslim and Woman by Barbara Lois Helms; Slighted Grandmothers: The Need for Increased Study of Female Spirits and Spirituality in Native American Religions by Jordan Paper; Women of Medieval South India in Hindu Temple Ritual: Text and Practice by Leslie C. Orr; and Confucianism and Women in Modern Korea: Continuity, Change and Conflict by Edward Y. J. Chung.