Sonya Sharma

Women and Religion in the West

Challenging Secularization
Herausgeber: Aune, Kristin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? This book addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization, the book moves its focus to in-depth examination of women's experiences based on data from key recent qualitative work on women and religion. This volume addresses not only women's place in and out of Christianity (the normal focus of secularization theories) but also alternative spiritualities and Islam, asking how questions of secularization differ between faith systems. This book offers students and scholars of religion, sociology, and women's studies, as well as interested general readers, an accessible work on the religiosity of western women and contributes fresh analyses of the rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary religion and spirituality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658702
• ISBN-10: 0754658708
• Artikelnr.: 47770750

Autorenporträt

Kirstin Aune is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby, UK. Sonya Sharma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada and Giselle Vincett is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: women and secularization: one size does not fit
all, Giselle Vincett, Sonya Sharma and Kristin Aune; Part 1 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. Part 2 Alternative Spiritualities: The spiritual revolution
and the New Age gender puzzle: the sacralization of self in late modernity
(1980-2000), Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers; The soul of soulless conditions:
paganism, Goddess religion and witchcraft in Canada, Siân Reid; The
fusers: new forms of spiritualized Christianity, Giselle Vincett; 'Because
I'm worth it': religion and women's changing lives in the West, Linda
Woodhead. Part 3 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 2nd generation Muslim women
create religious identities in 2 worlds, Rubina Ramji; Being seen by many
eyes: Muslim immigrant women in the United States, Garbi Schmidt;
Afterword, Mary Jo Neitz; Index.