Fundamentalism and women in world religions
By: edited by Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young
Contributors: Sharma, Arvind; Young, Katherine K., 1944-
Publisher: T & T Clark; T & T Clark International
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780567025333
Subjects: Religious fundamentalism; Women and religion
Description: "This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might converge 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Katherine K. Young; title: Open space and double locks : the Hindutva appropriation of female gender / Eva Hellman; title: Women as fundamental and fundamentalists women : the case of Buddhist Sri Lanka / Tessa Bartholomeusz; title: Fundamentalism and the position of women in Confucianism / Vivian-Lee Nyitray; title: Reading from right to left : fundamentalism, feminism, and women's changing role in Jewish societies / Sylvia Barack Fishman; title: Chastening tale : figuring woman across the Christian fundamentalist/feminist divide / Heidi Epstein; title: Miniskirts and fundamentalist fashions : clothing the Muslim Canadian woman / Reem A. Meshal; title: Postscript: Reading from both right and left to center / Katherine K. Young