Gender, Religion and Spirituality

Autorentext
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.

Klappentext
This collection explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief. Writers explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice and analyse feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use religious doctrine to justify women's oppression.

Inhalt
Editorial; Reconciling Islam and feminism; Christianity, development, and women's liberation; Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting; No time to worship the serpent deities: Women, economic change, and religion in north-wester Nepal; Gender relations, 'Hindu' nationalism, and NGO responses in India; Religion, male violence, and the control of women: Pakistani Muslim men in Bradford, UK; A double-edged sword: Challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria; Gender and development from a Christian perspective: Experience from World Vision; Islam and development: Opportunities and constraints for Somali women; 'The way to do is to be': Exploring the interface between values and research; Resources; Books; Video; Organisations; Web Resources.

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