Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions / Edition 1

by Arvind Sharma, Katherine K. Young

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567027498
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada. Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor at McGill University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Open Space and Double Locks: The Hindutva Appropriation of Female Gender
Chapter 3: Women as Fundamental and Fundamentalist Women: The Case of Buddhist Sri Lanka
Chapter 4: Confucianism and Chinese Religion
Chapter 5: Reading from Right to Left: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Women's Changing Role in Jewish Societies
Chapter 6: Fundamentalism and Women in Christianity
Chapter 7: Miniskirts and Fundamentalist Fashions: Clothing the Muslim Canadian Woman

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