Religious, Feminist, Activist - Cosmologies of Interconnection

Laurel Zwissler is an assistant professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Central Michigan University.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Changing Rituals, Changing Worlds
2. “The Shrine Was Human Rights”: Pilgrimage and Protest
3. “Spirituality” as Feminist Third Choice: Gendering Religion and the Secular
4. Self, Community, and Social Justice
Conclusion
Source Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Laurel Zwissler is an assistant professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Central Michigan University.

Summary

Investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their activities reveal about the public significance of religion in the pluralistic context of North America and in an increasingly globalized world.

Product details

• Authors: Laurel Zwissler
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780803285705
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8570-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary North America; Anthropology of Contemporary N; Anthropology of Contemporary North America; Anthropology of Contemporary N
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology