1st Edition

Passport to Heaven Gender Roles in the Unification Church

By Kathleen S. Lowney Copyright 1992
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on the gender roles within the Unification Church, and on particularly the gender roles as expressed through the vows of marriage. It examines the more widely shared patriarchal assumptions about women in a circumscribed socio-religious environment, with the Church’s gender role system being investigated largely on the level of its theological explanations for gender roles. The... Read more

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Biography

Lowney, Kathleen S.