Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions

Name: Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions
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ISBN: 9780567027498

ISBN-10: 056702749X

ISBN-13: 9780567027498

Edition: 2008

Authors: Arvind Sharma, Katherine K. Young, Sharma

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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.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Introduction




Open Space and Double Locks: The Hindutva Appropriation of Female Gender




Women as Fundamental and Fundamentalist Women: The Case of Buddhist Sri Lanka




Fundamentalism and the Position of Women in Confucianism




Reading from Right to Left: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Women's Changing Role in Jewish Societies




Chastening Tale: Figuring Woman across the Christian Fundamentalist/Feminist Divide




Miniskirts and Fundamentalist Fashions: Clothing the Muslim Canadian Woman



Postscript: Reading from Both Right and Left to Center



Index