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Book SynopsisThis edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women's identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world.
Trade Review"A timely book, with rich, empirical research giving voice and texture to women worldwide. This should be required reading for students and researchers seeking to understand women’s contemporary lived religion." Abby Day, Goldsmiths, University of London
Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction ~ Elisabetta Ruspini, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Consuelo Corradi; Part I: Women, Gender Equality and Religion between Past and Present; Gender Equality in Different Readings of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran ~ Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh; Religion and Gender Equality in the Philippines: Discourses and Practices in the 21st Century ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; A Slow March Forward: The Impact of Religious Change on Gender Ideology in the United States ~ Joshua D. Tuttle and Shannon N. Davis; Divine Shadows: Indian Devadasis between Religious Beliefs and Sexual Exploitation ~ Manu Sharma; Part II: Identities, Women’s Movements and Religion; Formation of ‘Religious’ Identity among British Muslim Women ~ Masoumeh Velayati; Christian Women’s Movements in Secularising and Diversifying Contexts: A Case Study from Belgium ~ Nella van den Brandt; Muslim Women in Contemporary Argentina ~ Mari-Sol García Somoza and Mayra Soledad Valcarcel; The Impact of Religious Unorthodoxy on Family Choices and Women’s Wellbeing in Turkey ~ F. Kemal Kizilca; Part III: Contemporary Women’s Religious Experiences; Between Me and My God. A Life Story Narrative of Conciliating Cultural Discourses and Personalization of Islam ~ Ladan Rahbari and Chia Longman; We are all Goddesses: Female Sacred Paths in Italy ~ Roberta Pibiri and Stefania Palmisano; Explorations of Spiritual Embodiment in Belly Dance ~ Angela M. Moe; From Exclusion to Inclusion. Women and Interfaith Dialogue in the Mediterranean Area ~ Francesco Antonelli and Elisabetta Ruspini.
