Gendering the spirit / Women, Religion and the Post-Colonial Response - Ahmed, Durre S.

Women and Religion and the Post-Colonial Response

KORTE INHOUD

Paperback, in-8, 264 pp.. Religion remains a powerful reality for countless human beings across a range of cultures and systems of beliefs. This text is about the devotional subcultures created by women. Its authors draw their evidence and inspiration from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamist and Christian traditions. Here we find women as healers, goddesses, saints, gurus, nuns and heretics - all sharing a defiance of orthodoxy and fundamentalist oppressions of women
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2002Uitgever: Zed Books208 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1842770276ISBN-13: 9781842770276

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