Women and Religion

Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-43839-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 1699 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3250 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

This collection is an essential research tool for all students specializing in religion and women’s studies, and will be equally useful to those working in related fields such as anthropology, cultural studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, and theology. By tracing the evolution of the topic, from the beginnings of feminist research on religion to more contemporary debates about categorizations of gender in the study of religion, this four-volume collection serves the needs of both specialist and generalist users.

Women and Religion includes essays treating a broad range of religious traditions, while focusing on particular methodological and theoretical concerns common to the study of women and religion. Organized thematically, each volume includes the most formative theoretical contributions to the field, grouped together with articles that explore a particular set of issues from a range of traditions, with the use of methodologies drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, textual criticism, and religious studies. Each volume’s introductory essay explicitly problematizes the central categories of analysis operating in the study of women and religion while also setting the articles in historical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klassen, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I Women, Gender, and Religion: Critical Foundations, Volume II The Politics of Public and Private Religion, Volume III Texts, Rituals, and Authoritative Knowledge, Volume IV Feminist Effects