Religion and Women (Mcgill Studies in the History of Religions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791416909 ISBN 13: 9780791416907

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha’i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework within which their positions could be comprehensively considered. The contributing scholars provide an enlarged database for a more thorough discussion of the questions pertaining to women and religion in general, and simultaneously advance the theoretical frontiers in women’s studies. Religion and Women belongs to a trilogy about women and world religions edited by Arvind Sharma the first and third volumes being respectively, Women in World Religions and Today’s Woman in World Religions.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book discuses the position of the women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sigh, and Baha'i, faiths for the first time in a single volume.

About the Author:

Arvind Sharma is Professor at McGill University. He is the editor of the two other volumes in this trilogy, Women in World Religions and the upcoming Today’s Woman in World Religions, both published by SUNY Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0791416909
• ISBN 13: 9780791416907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Sharma Arvind