Gendering religion and politics : untangling modernities / edited by Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude ; associate editor, Pnina Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzog, Hanna.

Braude, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Religion and politics.

Women and religion.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; [Jerusalem] : Van Leer Jerusalem Institute ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2009.

Contents:

I Gender, Religion and Politics: Contingent Relations

Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam / Jose Casanova Casanova, Jose

Imagined Communities: State, Religion and Jewish Religious Women Settlers / Hanna Herzog Herzog, Hanna

Contemporary American Catholicism and the Challenge of Gender Equality / Mary Segers Segers, Mary

II Women's Agency between Religion and State

From Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: Intermarriage and Conversion in the Jewish Nation State / Daphna Hacker Hacker, Daphna

Seeking Recognition: Women's Struggle to Full Citizenship in the Community of Religious Worship / Pnina Lahav Lahav, Pnina

"Subway Women" and the American Near East Relief in Anatolia 1919-1924 / Anat Lapidot-Firilla Lapidot-Firilla, Anat

Global Sisterhood: Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Religion / Gertrud Hüwelmeier Hüwelmeier, Gertrud

III Gender Spaces: Culture, Religion and Politics

Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror / Saba Mahamood Mahamood, Saba

Ecumenism, Feminism and Women's Religious Experiences in Costa Rica / Elina Vuola-Patriarchal Vuola-Patriarchal, Elina

The Boundaries of Liberation, the Chains of Freedom: Urban Women in the 1960s' Egyptian Popular Cinema / Shmulik Bachar Bachar, Shmulik

Language, Gender and Power in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi Sadiqi, Fatima.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780230613089

023061308X

OCLC:

255888324