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Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
Edited by Dr Giselle Vincett, Edited by Dr Kristin Aune, Edited by Dr Sonya Sharma, Series edited by Dr Kristin Aune, Series edited by Dr Pink Dandelion, Series edited by CPQS, Series edited by Woodbrooke
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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? Women and Religion in the West 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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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 1 Jun 2008
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Format | Digital (delivered electronically)
Pages | 242
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-7546-9023-8
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BISAC | religion / general
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