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Title Gendering religion and politics : untangling modernities / edited by Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude ; associate editor, Pnina Steinberg
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; [Jerusalem] : Van Leer Jerusalem Institute ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents Nativism and the politics of gender in Catholicism and Islam / Jose Casanova -- Imagined communities: state, religion, and gender in Jewish settlements / Hanna Herzog -- Contemporary American Catholicism and the challenge of gender equality / Mary C. Segers -- From the Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: intermarriage and conversion in the Jewish nation state / Daphna Hacker -- Seeking recognition: women's struggle for full citizenship in the community of religious worship / Pnina Lahav -- "Subway women" and the American near east relief in Anatolia, 1919-1924 / Anat Lapidot-Pirilla -- Global sisterhood: transnational perspectives on gender and religion / Gertrud Huwelmeier -- Feminism, democracy, and empire: Islam and the war on terror / Saba Mahmood -- Patriarchal ecumenism, feminism, and women's religious experiences in Costa Rica / Elina Vuola -- The boundaries of liberation, the chains of freedom: urban women in 1960s Egyptian popular cinema / Shmulik Bachar -- Language, gender, and power in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi
Summary Gendering Religion and Politics explores the multi-dimensional nature and inherently contingent qualities of modernity as they are revealed in the entwined relations between gender, religion, and politics. Evocative case studies by sociologists, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and theologians situate the discussion in Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities. Twelve outstanding scholars delve into the interconnections of religion, gender, and politics that lie beneath domestic and international conflicts. While previous studies portrayed religious women as passive or as relics of the past, these essays demonstrate their active roles in shaping modernity and untangle the web of relations connecting women's religiosity to the political processes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Political activity.
Religion and politics.
Women and religion.
International relations.
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Politics and Government.
Religion and politics
Women and religion
Women -- Political activity
Form Electronic book
Author Herzog, Hanna, editor.
Braude, Ann, editor.
Steinberg, Pnina (Social anthropologist), associate editor.
ISBN 9780230623378
0230623379
9780230613089
023061308X
9781349377596
1349377597