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<br> Gender, Religion and Diversity provides an introduction to some of the most challenging perspectives in the contemporary study of gender and religion. In recent years, women's and gender studies have transformed the international study of religion through the use of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural methodologies, which have opened up new and highly controversial issues, challenging previous paradigms and creating fresh fields of study. As this book shows, gender studies in religion raises new and difficult questions about the gendered nature of religious phenomena, the relationship between power and knowledge, the authority of religious texts and institutions, and the involvement and responsibility of the researcher undertaking such studies as a gendered subject. <p>This book is the outcome of an international collaboration between a wide range of researchers from different countries and fields of religious studies. The range and diversity of their contributions is the very strength of this book, for it shows how gendering works in studying different religious materials, whether foundational texts from the Bible or Koran, philosophical ideas about truth, essentialism, hist

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Author

Ursula King, Tina Beattie, Tina Beattie

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826469342

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Sociology

Rating

4.25 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14