Women and Religion: Contemporary and Future Challenges in the Global Era

ISBN-13: 9781447336358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Elisabetta Ruspini; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Consuelo Corradi

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This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women's identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world.

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Editors’ Introduction ~ Elisabetta Ruspini, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Consuelo Corradi; Part I: Women, Gender Equality and Religion between Past and Present; Gender Equality in Different Readings of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran ~ Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh; Religion and Gender Equality in the Philippines: Discourses and Practices in the 21st Century ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; A Slow March Forward: The Impact of Religious Change on Gender Ideology in the United States ~ Joshua D. Tuttle and Shannon N. Davis; Divine Shadows: Indian Devadasis between Religious Beliefs and Sexual Exploitation ~ Manu Sharma; Part II: Identities, Women’s Movements and Religion; Formation of ‘Religious’ Identity among British Muslim Women ~ Masoumeh Velayati; Christian Women’s Movements in Secularising and Diversifying Contexts: A Case Study from Belgium ~ Nella van den Brandt; Muslim Women in Contemporary Argentina ~ Mari-Sol García Somoza and Mayra Soledad Valcarcel; The Impact of Religious Unorthodoxy on Family Choices and Women’s Wellbeing in Turkey ~ F. Kemal Kizilca; Part III: Contemporary Women’s Religious Experiences; Between Me and My God. A Life Story Narrative of Conciliating Cultural Discourses and Personalization of Islam ~ Ladan Rahbari and Chia Longman; We are all Goddesses: Female Sacred Paths in Italy ~ Roberta Pibiri and Stefania Palmisano; Explorations of Spiritual Embodiment in Belly Dance ~ Angela M. Moe; From Exclusion to Inclusion. Women and Interfaith Dialogue in the Mediterranean Area ~ Francesco Antonelli and Elisabetta Ruspini.