Notes on contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures, tables and appendices v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Women and religion: contemporary and future challenges: editors’ introduction 1
6. Women, gender equality and religion between past and present
7. Gender equality in different readings of Islam in post-revolutionary Iran 21
8. Religion and gender equality in Catholic Philippines: discourses and practices in the 21st century 41
9. A slow march forward: the impact of religious change on gender ideology in the contemporary United States 59
10. Divine shadows: Indian Devadasis between religious beliefs and sexual exploitation 79
11. Identities, women’s movements and religion
12. Formation of ‘religious’ identity among British Muslim women 95
13. Christian women’s movements in secularizing and diversifying contexts: a case study from Belgium 117
14. Muslim women in contemporary Argentina 135
15. The impact of religious unorthodoxy on family choices and women’s well-being in Turkey 157
16. Contemporary women’s religious experiences
17. ‘Between me and my God’: a life story narrative of conciliating cultural discourses and personalization of Islam 175
18. ‘We are all Goddesses’: female sacred paths in Italy 191
19. Explorations of spiritual embodiment in belly dance 207
20. From exclusion to inclusion: women and interfaith dialogue in the Mediterranean area 221
21. Index 237