Format:
Online-Ressource (236 p.)
ISBN:
9781845201982
Content:
The complicated link between women and religion in the Middle East has been a source of debate for centuries, and has special resonance today. Whether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women - or a combination of both - depends on time, place and circumstance
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Description based upon print version of record
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Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Justice without Drama: Observations from Gaza City Sharia Court; 2 From the Army of G-d to the Israeli Armed Forces; 3 To Give the Boys Energy, Manliness, and Self-command in Temper; 4 Women Students at the American University of Beirut; 5 Women's Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations in Egypt; 6 Nineteenth-century Protestant Missions and Middle-Eastern Women; 7 The Paradox of the New Islamic Woman in Turkey; 8 Visions of Mary in the Middle East; 9 An Army of Women Learning Torah; 10 Stones and Stories; 11 Tradition and Change; 12 Vows, Mediumship and Gender; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845207281
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845201982
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East
Language:
English
Keywords:
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