Women of faith and the quest for spiritual authenticity: comparative perspectives from Malaysia and Britain

"Drawn from over 58 individual, in-depth, qualitative interviews with women of faith in Malaysia and Britain, Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity is a multi-faith, multi-cultural and cross-cultural comparative focus that explores women's religious expressions, as derive...

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Autor principal: Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara (Autor)
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Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
En:Año: 2021
Colección / Revista:Routledge research in gender and society 94
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Malaysia / Großbritannien / Mujer / Religiosidad / Espiritualidad
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AD Sociología de la religión
AG Vida religiosa
KBF Islas Británicas
KBM Asia
Otras palabras clave:B Spirituality (Malaysia)
B Women Religious life (Malaysia)
B Spirituality (Great Britain)
B Women and religion (Malaysia)
B Women Religious life (Great Britain)
B Women and religion (Great Britain)
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Sumario:"Drawn from over 58 individual, in-depth, qualitative interviews with women of faith in Malaysia and Britain, Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity is a multi-faith, multi-cultural and cross-cultural comparative focus that explores women's religious expressions, as derived from practising Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Wiccans and Druids among others. Despite social advances towards women's emancipation and the lacerating critiques from feminist theologians across the Abrahamic religions and beyond, women's religious experiences remain submerged beneath the weight of patriarchal religious leadership and on-going masculinised, dogmatic interpretations. Even feminism itself has yet to move the spiritual onto their main agenda of inequity in women's lives. This extensive, feminist research monograph challenges these exclusions to centre and amplify women's voices in speaking powerfully of their religious experiences, interpretations and practices. This is an ecumenical and entertaining ethnography where women's narratives and life-stories ground faith as embodied, personal, painful, vibrant, diverse, illuminating and shared. This book will of interest not only to academics and students of the sociology of religion, feminist and gender studies, politics, ethnicity and Southeast Asian studies, but is equally accessible to the general reader broadly interested in faith and feminism"--
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0367436752