Religion and Gender in the Developing World: Faith-Based Organizations and Feminism in India

ISBN-13: 9781788312691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Tamsin Bradley

Opis

Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent an important aspect of both individual and collective identities.

Spis treści

IntroductionPART I: MAINSTREAMING RELIGION AND GENDER IN DEVELOPMENTChapter 1: Reviewing the Links between Religion, Gender and DevelopmentChapter 2: Understanding Global Development through Religion and GenderChapter 3: Gender, Mothering and Development: Case Studies of Three Hindu Trans-national MovementsPART II: FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND DIALOGUES IN DEVELOPMENTChapter 4: What is a Faith-Based Organization?Chapter 5: Can Compassion bring Results? Reflections on the Work of an Intermediary Faith-Based Organization.Chapter 6: Competing Visions of Development: The Story of a Faith-Based Partnership.Chapter 7: Gender, Gandhi and Community OrganizationsPART III: RELIGION AS A RESOURCEChapter 8: Physical Religious Spaces in the Lives of Rajasthani Village Women: The Ethnographic Study and Practice of Religion in Development.Chapter 9: Positioning Religion in Research and Activism to End Domestic Violence in RajasthanChapter 10: Puja as One Dimension of a Sensitive, Relational Approach to Community Health Care Provision.Conclusion

O autorze

Tamsin Bradley is Principal Lecturer in Anthropology and Director of the International Centre for Community Development, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, UK.Tamsin Bradley is ESRC Research Fellow, London Metropolitan University.