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Gender, religion and spirituality / edited by Caroline Sweetman.
Van Pelt Library HQ1236 .G4623 1998
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LIBRA HQ1236 .G4623 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxfam focus on gender
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights--Religious aspects.
- Women's rights.
- Economic development--Religious aspects.
- Economic development.
- Local Subjects:
- Women's rights--Religious aspects.
- Economic development--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : Oxfam, [1998]
- Summary:
- Religion and spirituality are central to women's and men's lives across the world, yet mainstream development policy and practice rarely takes account of this. This collection of articles explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief and assesses the cost to development of ignoring these links. Writers of many faiths, and none, explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice, and analyze feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use religious doctrine to justify women's oppression.
- Readership: This book will be of interest to students and academics in the field of development studies, women's studies, philosophy and religion, as well as to development practitioners.
- Contents:
- Editorial / Caroline Sweetman
- Reconciling Islam and feminism / Iman Hashim
- Christianity, development, and women's liberation / Bridget Walker
- Conflict and compliance : Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting / Catherine S. Dolan
- No time to worship the serpent deities : women, economic change, and religion in north-western Nepal / Rebecca Saul
- Gender relations, 'Hindu' nationalism, and NGO responses in India / Stacey Burlet
- Religion, male violence, and the control of women : Pakistani Muslim men in Bradford, UK / Marie Macey
- A double-edged sword : challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in northern Nigeria / Fatima L. Adamu
- Gender and development from a Christian perspective : experience from world vision / Linda Tripp
- Islam and development : opportunities and constraints for Somali women / Sadia Ahmed
- 'The way to do is to be' : exploring the interface between values and research / Sharon Harper and Kathleen Clancy
- Resources / compiled by Sophie Dodgeon.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0855984007
- 0855984260
- OCLC:
- 41466516
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