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This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highli

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Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contem

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