Religion and Women

Religion and Women
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0791416909
ISBN-13 : 9780791416907
Rating : 4/5 (907 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Religion and Women by : Arvind Sharma

Download or read book Religion and Women written by Arvind Sharma and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha’i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework within which their positions could be comprehensively considered. The contributing scholars provide an enlarged database for a more thorough discussion of the questions pertaining to women and religion in general, and simultaneously advance the theoretical frontiers in women’s studies. Religion and Women belongs to a trilogy about women and world religions edited by Arvind Sharma the first and third volumes being respectively, Women in World Religions and Today’s Woman in World Religions.


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