Women and Islam

Informationen zum Autor Zayn R. Kassam is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department, Pomona College. Klappentext This balanced exploration provides the basis for an energetic engagement with what it means to be a Muslim woman in a globalized world.The expert essays in Women and Islam are designed to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world. They explore the issues Muslim women face as they fight for gender justice and meet the challenges of living in a globalized, post-9/11 world-whether in Iran or France, Ethiopia, or the United States.Each chapter examines a different part of the globe, exploring issues arising from cultural and religious codes, as well as from internal and global politics, economics, education, and the law. Readers will glimpse the many and diverse ways in which Muslim women are actively involved in addressing the conditions embedded in their discrete environments and taking up the opportunities afforded to them, adopting strategies ranging from the political to the legal, from the theatrical to the religious. Zusammenfassung This balanced exploration provides the basis for an energetic engagement with what it means to be a Muslim woman in a globalized world. The expert essays in Women and Islam are designed to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Zayn R. Kassam (Editor), Zayn Kassam (Editor), Kassam Zayn R. (Editor)
• Authors: Lillian/ Kirk-Duggan Ashcraft-eason, Zayn Kassam
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.10.2010
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions
• EAN: 9780275991586
• ISBN: 978-0-275-99158-6
• Pages: 361
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Series: WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE WORL; WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE WORL; Women and Religion in the World
• Subjects: Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Religion: general, Religion and beliefs, Comparative; Religion