Women and Religion

Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction (Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Consuelo Corradi, Elisabetta Ruspini); Part I - Religion, Institutions and Gender Equality; Chapter 2: Gender Equality in Different Readings of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh); Chapter 3: Neoliberalism, Secularization, and Egalitarianism: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Trends in Gender Ideology (JD. Tuttle and SN. Davis); Chapter 4: A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out: The Conservative `Other,' Masculinity, and the Culture of Poverty at a Faith-Based Homelessness Advocacy Organization (Danielle Docka-Filipek and Samuel Oakley); Chapter 5: Religion and Gender Equality in the Philippines: Discourses and Practices in the 21st century (Glenda Tibe Bonifacio); Part II - The Construction of Gender through Religious Activity; Chapter 6: Raising the Nation: Rethinking Burmese Women's gendered role in Buddhism (Keziah Wallis); Chapter 7: Identity, Gender and Islam in Contemporary Argentina (Mayra Soledad Valcarcel and Mari-Sol Garcia Somoza); Chapter 8: The Politics of Gendered Visibility (Helana Darwin); Chapter 9: "We are all goddesses": Female Sacred Paths in Italy (Stefania Palmisano and Roberta Pibiri); Chapter 10: Divine Shadows: Dignity They Deserve (Manu Sharma); Chapter 11: "It Brings Me Closer to the Divine": Explorations of Spiritual Embodiment in Belly Dance (Angela M. Moe); Part III - Social Change, Gender and Religious Identities; Chapter 12: `Between Me and My God': Conflicting Cultural Discourses and Personalization of Religion by Iranian Women (Ladan Rahbari and Chia Longman); Chapter 13: Repositioning a Christian Women's Movement in a Secularising and Diversifying West-European Context: Investigating Issues of Representation, Identity and Notions of Religion (Nella van den Brandt); Chapter 14: Sin and Household Structures: A Gendered Perspective (F. Kemal Kilzica); Chapter 15: Gender and Interreligious Dialogue: A Sociological Analysis in the Mediterranean Area (Francesco Antonelli and Elisabetta Ruspini);