A woman's place
Subtitle: religious women as public actors
By: edited by Azza Karam
Publisher: World Conference on Religion and Peace Women's Program
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780935934106
Subjects: Women and religion
Other titles: Religious women as public actors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious women : the challenges, the dreams, and the possibilities  -- Azza Karam; title: Gender roles, state and governance in Hinduism  -- Renuka Sharma; title: Buddhist attitudes toward women  -- Rita Gross; title: Warrants for women's authority in Chinese religious traditions  -- Deborah Sommer; title: The warrants for religious women as public actors  -- Nokuzola Mndende; title: Transforming the nature of community  -- Judith Plaskow; title: Muffled voices  -- Mary S. Perpiñan; title: Women's full participation in the public sphere : implications of the Protestant doctrines of creation and salvation  -- Nelia B. Scovill; title: The culture of peaceful coexistence in Islam and the role of women  -- Souad I. Saleh; title: Islam and women as agents of peace and human rights  -- Amina Wadud; title: Women, social action, and the common good -- Janet A. Khan.