Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Women, Religion and Secularization: One size does not fit all -- Part 1: Christianity -- 1 Religious Change in the West: Watch the Women -- 2 Singleness and Secularization: B...

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Main Author: Sharma, Sonya (Author)
Contributors: Vincett, Giselle (Other) ; Aune, Kristin (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Taylor and Francis 2016
In:Year: 2016
Edition:1st ed
Series/Journal:Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christianity / Woman / Gender-specific role / Secularization
B Religion / Woman / Gender-specific role / Secularization
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Sharma, Sonya: Women and Religion in the West : Challenging Secularization. - London : Taylor and Francis,c2016. - 9780754658702
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Summary:Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Women, Religion and Secularization: One size does not fit all -- Part 1: Christianity -- 1 Religious Change in the West: Watch the Women -- 2 Singleness and Secularization: British Evangelical Women and Church (Dis)affiliation -- 3 When Young Women Say ‘Yes’: Exploring the Sexual Selves of Young Canadian Women in Protestant Churches -- 4 Vocational Habit(u)s: Catholic Nuns in Contemporary Poland -- Part 2: Alternative Spiritualities -- 5 The Spiritual Revolution and the New Age Gender Puzzle: The Sacralization of the Self in Late Modernity (1980–2000) -- 6 The Soul of Soulless Conditions: Paganism, Goddess Religion and Witchcraft in Canada -- 7 The Fusers: New Forms of Spiritualized Christianity -- 8 ‘Because I’m Worth It’: Religion and Women’s Changing Lives in the West -- Part 3: Islam -- 9 Counting Women with Faith: What Quantitative Data can reveal about Muslim Women in ‘Secular’ Britain -- 10 ‘Real’ Islam in Kazan: Reconfiguring the Modern, Knowledge and Gender -- 11 Being Muslim and Being Canadian: How Second Generation Muslim Women Create Religious Identities in Two Worlds -- 12 Being Seen by Many Eyes: Muslim Immigrant Women in the United States -- Afterword
ISBN:1134773242