Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity: Comparative Perspectives from Malaysia and Britain
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Searching for the Sacramental: An Introduction -- Locating the study -- Defining boundaries -- Who for and why now? -- Positioning the self in the study -- De...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Research in Gender and Society Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
Women-Religious life-Great Britain
B Women and religion-Malaysia B Electronic books B Women-Religious life-Malaysia |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780367436759 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Searching for the Sacramental: An Introduction -- Locating the study -- Defining boundaries -- Who for and why now? -- Positioning the self in the study -- Define 'define': Terminology -- The organising structure -- Chapter 2 Gender and faith: A critical review -- The demographic context of faith in Britain and Malaysia -- Gendering faith -- Interfaith discourses -- Feminist theologies -- Nature and gender -- Notes -- Chapter 3 'When Eve delved': Fieldwork reflections -- 'Satu Malaysia' and the rhetoric of diversity -- Divisiveness in the union -- The study: Inquiry and approaches -- The method toolbox -- The lost, found and the introduced - the participants -- A syncretic theoretic framework -- Intersectionality -- Bridging Bourdieu -- Chapter 4 What is it to be a Woman of Faith? -- Identity, faith and gender -- Gender as integral to faith -- Gender, faith and performance -- Gender, faith and sensibility -- Chapter 5 God the patriarch and other relatives -- 'Troubling' patriarchy -- Rosemary's story -- Bibi's story -- Letting go: Unhappiness, autonomy and Buddhism -- God the Father: Adoration and ambivalence -- Helen's story -- Patriarchy, organised religion and silenced women -- Embodiment, belief and ritual -- Chapter 6 The sacred, sacramental and sex -- Raised to grace: The elevation of women -- Man, woman's saviour -- Finding the goddess -- Fieldnotes: Rage -- The mother of all: The maternal goddess -- Sacred vulvas and sanctified whores -- Fieldnotes: Lammas Day -- Chapter 7 The damnable, salvational and salvageable -- Damnable bigotry -- Tribal conflict -- Prophecies and enchantments -- Guardians and angels -- Sharing the Good -- Neutralising Mappō -- Chapter 8 Conclusions and contemplations. |
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| ISBN: | 1000361160 |