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Women in Fundamentalism

Author : Maxine L. Margolis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134039
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Women in Fundamentalism written by Maxine L. Margolis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, the fundamentalist offshoots of these religions subject women to myriad restrictions in their daily lives. All three seek to maintain male control over women’s bodies, women’s activities, and the people with whom women associate. The three also share common ideologies about women's “true nature" and proper place. The specific cases covered in this text are (1) Mormon polygamists, specifically the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), who live in Utah, Arizona, Texas, and isolated enclaves in Canada and Mexico; (2) the Satmar Hasidim of Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Kiryas Joel, a town in Rockland County, New York, and several settlements in Israel; and, (3) an extreme brand of Islam practiced by the Pashtun ethnic group of Afghanistan and neighboring areas of Pakistan. This book effectively bridges the disciplines of women’s studies, religion, and anthropology, making it a valuable resource for professors and students seeking new qualitative and quantitative material on women’s positions in various religious traditions.

Godly Women

Author : Brenda E. Brasher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524689
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Godly Women written by Brenda E. Brasher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998 Fundamentalist women are often depicted as dedicated to furthering the goals and ideas of fundamentalist men and thus of ancillary importance to the movement as a whole. Godly Women, Brenda Brasher's groundbreaking ethnographic study, reveals the paradox that fundamentalist women can be powerful people in a religious cosmos generally understood to be organized around their disempowerment. Brasher spent six months as an active participant in two Christian fundamentalist congregations to study firsthand the power of fundamentalist women. In addition to the narrow set of religious beliefs that constitute each congregation, she discovered that gender functions as a sacred partition which literally divides the congregation in two, establishing parallel religious worlds. The first of these worlds is led by men and encompasses overall congregational life; the second is a world composed of and led solely by women. Brasher explores how and why women become involved in this highly gendered religious world by examining women's ministries, Bible study groups, and conversion narratives. She discovers that women-only activities create and sustain a parallel symbolic world within and among congregations, which improves women's ability to direct the course of their lives and empowers them in their relationships with others. The women develop intimate social networks that act as a resource for those in distress and provide the basis for political coalition when women wish to alter the patterns of congregational life. Brasher's study sheds new light on the ideas and faith experiences of fundamentalist women, revealing that the religiosity they develop is not as disempowering as one might think. Brenda Brasher is an assistant professor of religion at Mount Union College.

Women and Fundamentalism

Author : Shahin Gerami
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113650916X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Women and Fundamentalism written by Shahin Gerami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, the surge of religious fundamentalism in the United States and in the Muslim world has resulted in many studies of the status of women and other family issues. This volume is a cross-cultural study of women's social status in Iran, Egypt, and in the U.S. during different stages of religious fundamentalism. In each of these countries, women have been active participants in fundamentalist movements, and this study shows that such participation enables women to reexamine their relationship to power in the family and in society and increase their group solidarity and feminist consciousness. The author combined quantitative, historical, and interview techniques in her analysis, gathering data by administering a questionnaire to middle-class women in the three countries. In Iran, she interviewed selected women leaders about future gender roles in the Islamic Republic. Students in women's studies, Middle Eastern culture, religion, history, sociology, and psychology, and political science will be interested in this publication.

Ungodly Women

Author : Betty A. DeBerg
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547117
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Ungodly Women written by Betty A. DeBerg and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about gender roles and social conventions. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills that important gap, analyzing the roots and character of fundamentalism in light of rapid changes and severe disruptions in gender-role ideology and actual social behavior in America between 1880 and 1930. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism."--Back cover.

Nothing Sacred

Author : Betsy Reed
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560254508
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Sacred written by Betsy Reed and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.

Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

Author : C. Howland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107389
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women written by C. Howland and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.

Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present

Author : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068641
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present written by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews and written sources, the author surveys the interplay between fundamentalist theology and fundamentalist practice.

Women Against Fundamentalism

Author : Sukhwant Dhaliwal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909831025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Women Against Fundamentalism written by Sukhwant Dhaliwal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) was formed in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. This book maps the development of the organisation over the past 25 years, through the life stories and political reflections of some of its members, focusing on the ways in which lived contradictions have been reflected in their politics. They explore the ways in which anti-fundamentalism relates to broader feminist, anti-racist and other emancipatory political ideologies and movements.

Fleeing Fundamentalism

Author : Carlene Cross
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202947
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Fleeing Fundamentalism written by Carlene Cross and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the distance between church and state is narrowing and the teaching of intelligent design is being proposed for our classrooms, it is startling and provocative to hear the reasoned voice of a dissident from inside the church. For Carlene Cross, arriving at this shift in belief was a long and torturous journey. In Fleeing Fundamentalism, Cross looks back at the life that led her to marry a charismatic young man who appeared destined for greatness as a minister within the fundamentalist church. Their marriage, which began with great hope and promise, started to crumble when she realized that her husband had fallen victim to the same demons that had plagued his youth. When efforts to hold their family together failed, she left the church and the marriage, despite the condemnation of the congregation and the anger of many she had considered friends. Once outside, she realized that the secular world was not the seething cauldron of corruption and sin she had believed, and found herself questioning the underpinnings of the fundamentalist faith. Here is an eloquent and compelling story of faith lost and regained. Certain to be controversial, it is also a brave and hopeful plea for greater tolerance and understanding.

Women and Revivalism in the West

Author : M. Franks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598102
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women and Revivalism in the West written by M. Franks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gender boundaries and roles and the blanket subjugation of women. This study aims particularly to establish what the attractions might be for women who choose to swim against the prevailing consumerist current and affiliate themselves with such groups in a liberal democracy.

Fundamentalism and Gender

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195082621
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Gender written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book examine the connection between fundamentalism and gender.

Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856495905
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (959 download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism by : Haideh Moghissi

Download or read book Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism written by Haideh Moghissi and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam. As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. She argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement postmodernism has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism. A major feminist critique of Islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of Western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. It is urgent reading for all those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.

Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567458229
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions written by Arvind Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege with women's roles in the various world's religions. The essayists explore fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examine the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism. The essays cover Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The contributors investigate the ways that women "fight back" against fundamentalist conceptions of family, gender roles, doctrinal practices, ritual practices, and God or theistic constructs. The writers reassert and preserve their identities by challenging the static categories of fundamentalism. The essays contain deep and powerful explorations of the intersections of culture, religion, and feminism.

Velvet Jihad

Author : Faegheh Shirazi
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059100
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Velvet Jihad written by Faegheh Shirazi and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational community intent on growing women’s rights in the Middle East. There is a large disparity between a Muslim woman's role according to the Qur'an and her role as some corners of Muslim society have interpreted it. In Velvet Jihad Faegheh Shirazi reveals the creative strategies Muslim women have adopted to quietly fight against those who would limit their growing rights. Shirazi examines issues that are important to all women, from routine matters such as daily hygiene and clothing to controversial subjects like abortion, birth control, and virginity. As a woman with linguistic expertise and extensive life experience in both Western and Middle Eastern cultures, she is uniquely positioned as an objective observer and reporter of changes and challenges facing Muslim women globally.

"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God

Author : J. I. Packer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467421243
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God written by J. I. Packer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1958-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern classic by the author of Knowing God provides a comprehensive statement of the doctrine of Scripture from an evangelical perspective. J. I. Packer explores the meaning of the word "fundamentalism" and offers a clear and well-reasoned argument for the authority of the Bible and its proper role in the Christian life.

Holding the World Together

Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932110X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Holding the World Together written by Nwando Achebe and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Fundamentalism

Author : Malise Ruthven
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647225
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism written by Malise Ruthven and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace and prosperity, a concern that was exacerbated by the events of 9/11, and the 'War against Terrorism'. But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the word has expanded its meaning to include radical conservatives or ideological purists in many spheres of activity, not all of them religious. Modern applications of fundamentalism include Islamist radicals in the Muslim world, the militant Israeli settlers who oppose them as well as Sikh, Hindu and even Buddhist nationalists who seek to justify their political agendas by reference to divine edicts or religious tradition. This exciting new book tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this fascinating subject.