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The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society

Edited By Caroline Starkey, Emma Tomalin Copyright 2022
    650 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    650 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    650 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. In both the Global South and the Global North, in the 21st century, religiosity is of continuing significance, not only in people’s private lives and in the family, but also in the public sphere and with respect to political and legal systems. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is an outstanding reference source to these key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject area. Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 3 parts:

    • Critical debates for religions, gender and society: theories, concepts and methodologies
    • Issues and themes in religions, gender and society
    • Contexts and locations

    Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including activism, gender analysis, intersectionality and feminism, oppression and liberation, equality, bodies and embodiment, space and place, leadership and authority, diaspora and migration, marriage and the family, generation and aging, health and reproduction, education, violence and conflict, ecology and climate change and the role of social media.

    The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, politics, sociology, anthropology and history.

      1. Introduction

        2. Emma Tomalin and Caroline Starkey

        Part 1: Critical debates for religions, gender and society: theories, concepts and methodologies

      2. Gender in Religion, Religion in Society: The Agency and Identity of Christian Women

        3. Esther McIntosh

      3. The Feminism Conundrum: A Contested Term for the Study of Religion and Gender

        4. Chia Longman

      4. Oppression or Liberation? Moving Beyond Binaries in Religion and Gender Studies

        5. Line Nyhagen

      5. Gender, Religion and Postcolonialism: The Birhen sa Balintawak and Masculinities in the Philippines

        6. Peter-Ben Smit

      6. Buddhist Nuns and Civil Activism in Transitional Myanmar

        7. Sneha Roy

      7. Reclaiming Public and Digital Spaces: Feminism and Secularism

        8. Sehrish Mushtaq and Fawad Baig

      8. Enacting Agency Online: Muslim and Mormon Women Bloggers in the United States

        9. Rosemary Hancock

      9. Space, Boundaries and Borders in the Study of Religion, Gender and Society

        10. Orlando Woods

      10. Bodies and Embodiment: The Somatic Turn in the Study of Religion and Gender

        11. Mariecke van den Berg

      11. Narrative approaches to religion and gender: a biographic study with Christian young men

        12. Joshua Heyes

      12. When my work is found wanting: Power, Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and the Reflexive Feminist Researcher

        13. Dawn Llewellyn

        Part 2: Issues and themes in religions, gender and society

      13. Butch lesbians, femme queens and promiscuous clergy: Queering the body politics of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa

        14. Megan Robertson

      14. Gender Variance and the Abrahamic Faiths

        15. Susannah Cornwall

      15. Migration and Law in the Middle East and North Africa

        16. Nadia Sonneveld

      16. Religion and Intimate Life: Marriage, Family and Sexuality

        17. Sarah-Jane Page

      17. Age, Gender and De-churchisation

        18. Abby Day

      18. Gender, Religion and Childhood: Towards a new research agenda

        19. Rachael Shillitoe and Céline Benoit

      19. Mothers, Bodhisattvas and Women of Tomorrow: Religiously Connotated Gender Roles in a Buddhist Vocational School in Japan

        20. Aura di Febo

      20. Articulating the neoliberal motherhood discourse: visions of gender in Japanese new religions

        21. Paola Cavaliere

      21. Women, Religion and the State: A Gendered Analysis of the Catholic Church, the State and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism on Women’s Roles and Women’s Rights in Brazil

        22. Kim Beecheno

      22. Religion, Gender Justice, Violence and Peace

        23. Dr. Atalia Omer

      23. Religion and Sexual Violence

        24. Johanna Stiebert

      24. Gender and International development: searching for game changers in the midst of polarisation

        25. Brenda Bartelink

      25. A Decological Way to Dialogue: Rethinking Ecofeminism and Religion

        26. Elaine Nogueira-Godsey

        Part 3: Contexts and Locations

      26. Religion and Gender in Europe: Thinking through Politico-social and Theoretical Challenges

        27. Nella van den Brandt

      27. Religion and Masculinities in Europe

        28. Stephen Hunt

      28. The Legacy of Colonialism and the Regulation of Gender in North America

        29. Danielle Dempsey

      29. Troubling the Demonic: Anti-Blackness, Heterosexual Black Masculinity and the Study of Religion in North America

        30. Ronald Neal

      30. Religion and Gender Dynamics in Latin American Societies

        31. Ana Lourdes Suarez

      31. Latin America – Religion, gender, masculinities and sexual diversity

        32. André S. Musskopf

      32. Women, religion and social inequality in India: intersectionality, nationalism and religious change

        33. Emma Tomalin

      33. Hindu Muscular Nationalism: Politicized Hinduism and Manhood in India

        34. Sikata Banerjee

      34. "A Monster Had Eaten Me Whole": Religiously Inspired Charitable Organisations (RICOs) as ‘Retreat’ for Women in Contemporary Urban China

        35. Hollie Gowan

      35. Masculinities and Religion in South East Asia

        36. Teguh Wijaya Mulya and Joseph Goh

      36. Reform, Continuities and Conservatism in the Middle East and North Africa

        37. An van Raemdonck

      37. Toward a more comprehensive approach to understanding the construction of Islamic masculinities

        38. Mhajne Anwar

      38. Exploring Tensions: Gender and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa

        39. Nadine Bowers Du Toit and Elisabet Le Roux

      39. Religions and Masculinities in Africa: Power, Politics, Performance

        40. Benjamin Kirby and Adriaan van Klinken

      40. Women and Religion in Oceania

        41. Anna Halafoff and Kathleen McPhillips

      41. Masculinity, Religion and Society in Oceania

                       Joshua Roose

    Biography

    Caroline Starkey is Associate Professor of Religion and Society, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.

    Emma Tomalin is Professor of Religion and Public Life, School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science, University of Leeds, UK.

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