Women and Religion in the West - Couverture rigide

Sharma, Sonya

 
9780754658702: Women and Religion in the West
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0754658708 ISBN 13 : 9780754658702
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? This book addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization, the book moves its focus to in-depth examination of women's experiences based on data from key recent qualitative work on women and religion. This volume addresses not only women's place in and out of Christianity (the normal focus of secularization theories) but also alternative spiritualities and Islam, asking how questions of secularization differ between faith systems. This book offers students and scholars of religion, sociology, and women's studies, as well as interested general readers, an accessible work on the religiosity of western women and contributes fresh analyses of the rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary religion and spirituality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kirstin Aune is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby, UK. Sonya Sharma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada and Giselle Vincett is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754658708
ISBN 13 
9780754658702
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
242
Éditeur
Aune Kristin
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1138276049 ISBN 13 :  9781138276048
Editeur : Routledge, 2017
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