Women and religion in the west : challenging secularization /
by Aune, Kristin; Sharma, Sonya; Vincett, Giselle.
Material type: BookSeries: Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspectiveTheology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group. Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2008Description: xi, 230 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780754658702 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0754658708 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Women in Christianity | Women and religionOnline resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Women, religion and secularization : one size does not fit all / Giselle Vincett, Sonya Sharma and Kristin Aune -- Christianity -- Religious change in the West : watch the women / Penny Long Marler -- Singleness and secularization : British evangelical women and church (dis)affiliation / Kristin Aune -- When young women say yes : exploring the sexual selves of young Canadian women in Protestant Churches / Sonya Sharma -- Vocational habit(u)s : Catholic nuns in contemporary Poland / Marta Trzebiatowska -- Alternative spiritualities -- The spiritual revolution and the New Age gender puzzle : the sacralization of the self in late modernity, 1980-2000 / Dick Houtman & Stef Aupers -- The soul of soulless conditions : paganism, goddess religion and witchcraft in Canada / Síân Reid -- The fusers : new forms of spiritualized Christianity / Giselle Vincett -- Because I'm worth it : religion and womens changing lives in the West / Linda Woodhead -- Islam -- Counting women with faith : what quantitative data can reveal about Muslim women in secular Britain / Serena Hussain -- Real Islam in Kazan : reconfiguring the modern, knowledge and gender / Sarah Bracke -- Being Muslim and being Canadian : how second generation Muslim women create religious identities in two worlds / Rubina Ramji -- Being seen by many eyes : Muslim immigrant women in the United States / Garbi Schmidt.
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