Women and religion

Herausgeber: Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe; Ruspini, Elisabetta; Corradi, Consuelo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781447336358
• ISBN-10: 1447336356
• Artikelnr.: 49558931

Autorenporträt

Elisabetta Ruspini is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Since 2012 she has coordinated the Research Section "Studi di Genere" (Gender Studies), part of the AIS (Associazione Italiana di Sociologia-Italian Sociological Association). She is a board member of the ESA Research Network 33 "Women's and Gender Studies" and has extensive teaching and research experience on gender issues. She has published a number of books and articles, and has contributed papers to many conferences. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She is the author of Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities, and has edited books on various topics related to gender and migration. Glenda is a research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Consuelo Corradi is Professor of Sociology and Vice-Chair for research and international relations at Lumsa University, Rome, Italy. She served as co-Chair of the Cost Action IS1206 on Femicide across Europe. She was Vice-President of the European Sociological Association from 2007 to 2009. Her research interests include violence against women, femicide, and the cross-national comparison of gender policy regimes across Europe. Her most recent book is "The concept and measurement of violence against women and men" (Policy Press, 2017), co-authored with S. Walby and others.

Inhaltsangabe

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.