Zones of Religion

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1. Appropriating Gender

   Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia

   Edited by Patricia Jeffery, Amrita Basu

   Series: Zones of Religion

   Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also...

   Published November 25th 1997 by Routledge
2. Border Fetishisms

   Material Objects in Unstable Spaces

   Edited by Patricia Spyer

   Series: Zones of Religion

   First published in 1998...

   Published November 19th 1997 by Routledge
3. Conversion to Modernities

   Edited by Peter van der Veer

   Series: Zones of Religion

   Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of...

   Published December 4th 1995 by Routledge
4. Women and Fundamentalism

   Islam and Christianity

   By Shahin Gerami

   Series: Zones of Religion

   Published November 30th 1995 by Routledge