Theory of Women in Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theory of Women in Religions write by Catherine Wessinger. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Theory of Women in Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women are not ordained as priests. In areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Taliban occupation girls and women students and their teachers risk their lives to go to school. And in Sri Lanka, fully ordained Buddhist nuns are denied the government identity cards that recognize them as citizens. Is it possible to create families, societies, and religions in which women and men are equal? And if so, what are the factors that promote equality? Theory of Women in Religions offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day. Catherine Wessinger integrates data and theories from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, gender studies, and psychology into a concise history of religions introduction to the complex relationships between gender and religion. She argues that socio-economic factors that support specific gender roles, in conjunction with religious norms and ideals, have created a gendered division of labor that both directly and indirectly reinforces gender inequality. Yet she also highlights how as the socio-economic situation is changing religion is being utilized to support the transition toward women’s equality, noting the ways in which many religious representations of gender change over time.
Women in New Religions
Women in New Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in New Religions write by Laura Vance. This book was released on 2015-03-13. Women in New Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity.
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminism: A Very Short Introduction write by Margaret Walters. This book was released on 2005-10-27. Feminism: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
Women and Religious Traditions
Women and Religious Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Religious Traditions write by Leona M. Anderson. This book was released on 2010-06-17. Women and Religious Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women and Religious Traditions, second edition, looks at a variety of religious traditions-their texts, symbols, interpretations, rituals-and discusses the roles women play within those traditions. Most importantly, this text gives a voice to a demographic that has traditionally been very underrepresented within religious scholarship.
Feminism and World Religions
Feminism and World Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminism and World Religions write by Arvind Sharma. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Feminism and World Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist perspective by leading women scholars. The fact that these authors share a dual but undivided commitment both to themselves as women and to their traditions as adherents imparts to their voices a prophetic quality, and if Mahatma Gandhi is to be believed, even scriptural value.
