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Zusatztext Mention -Book News, February 2009 Informationen zum Autor Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. His publications include Hinduism and Human Rights (2004) and Hinduism On Its Own Terms (2016). He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (2017). Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005). Katherine K . Young is James McGill Professor at McGill University, Canada. Klappentext A collection of essays by internationally renowned female scholars contesting notions of fundamentalism and examining women's roles in religion. Vorwort A collection of essays by internationally renowned female scholars contesting notions of fundamentalism and examining women's roles in religion. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Open Space and Double Locks: The Hindutva Appropriation of Female Gender Chapter 3: Women as Fundamental and Fundamentalist Women: The Case of Buddhist Sri Lanka Chapter 4: Confucianism and Chinese Religion Chapter 5: Reading from Right to Left: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Women's Changing Role in Jewish Societies Chapter 6: Fundamentalism and Women in Christianity Chapter 7: Miniskirts and Fundamentalist Fashions: Clothing the Muslim Canadian Woman ...
