| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Series |
McGill studies in the history of religions |
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McGill studies in the history of religions.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Katherine K. Young -- At the beginning was woman : women in Native American religious traditions / Kathleen M. Dugan -- Women in African religions / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Women in Shinto : images remembered / Michiko Yusa -- Women in Jainism / Nalini Balbir -- Outside the discipline, inside the experience : women in Zoroastrianism / Ketayun H. Gould -- Women in Sikhism / Rajkumari Shanker -- Women in the Baha'i faith / Susan S. Maneck |
| Summary |
This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha'i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework within which their positions could be comprehensively considered. The contributing scholars provide an enlarged database for a more thorough discussion of the questions pertaining to women and religion in general, and simultaneously advance the theoretical frontiers in women's studies. Religion and Women belongs to a trilogy about women and world religions edited by Arvind Sharma the first and third volumes being respectively, Women in World Religions and Today's Woman in World Religions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women and religion.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Women and religion
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Religion
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Godsdiensten.
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Femmes et religion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharma, Arvind
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| ISBN |
0585060452 |
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9780585060453 |
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