The aim of this book is to suggest an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex relations of gender, religion and politics in light of paradigmatic shifts in theories of modernity and the growing body of studies on gender and religion. INDICE: Introduction: Untangling Modernities; H.Herzog ; A.Braude - PART I: GENDER, RELIGION AND POLITICS: CONTINGENT RELATIONS - Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam; J.Casanova - Imagined Communities: State, Religion and Jewish Religious Women Settlers; H.Herzog - Contemporary American Catholicism and the Challenge of Gender Equality; M.Segers - PART II: WOMEN'S AGENCY BETWEEN RELIGION AND STATE - From Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: Intermarriage and Conversion in the Jewish Nation State; D.Hacker - Seeking Recognition: Women's Struggle to Full Citizenship in the Community of Religious Worship; P.Lahav - 'Subway Women' and the American Near East Relief in Anatolia 1919-1924; A.Lapidot-Firilla - Global Sisterhood: Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Religion; G.Hüwelmeier - PART III: GENDER SPACES: CULTURE, RELIGION AND POLITICS - Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror; S.Mahamood - Patriarchal Ecumenism, Feminism and Women's Religious Experiences in Costa Rica; E.Vuola - The Boundaries of Liberation, the Chains of Freedom: Urban Women in the 1960s' Egyptian Popular Cinema; S.Bachar - Language, Gender and Power in Morocco; F.Sadiqi
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61308-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 308
- Fecha Publicación: 11/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés