Nyhagen / Halsaa Religion, Gender and Citizenship

Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-40534-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten

Reihe: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's movements and feminism? Via interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain and the UK, this book explores intersections between religion, citizenship, gender and feminism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nyhagen, Line

Halsaa, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Faithful women: Religious women in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom talk about faith, citizenship, gender and feminism
2. Binaries and complexities in the study of religion, gender, feminism and citizenship: Towards lived religion and lived citizenship
3. Religious identities and meaning-making
4. Religion and citizenship as lived practice: Intersections of faith, gender, participation and belonging
5. Religion and gender equality
6. Women's Movements and Feminism
7. Faithful women: Lived religion and citizenship, gender equality and feminism

Über Autor(innen)

Line Nyhagen is Reader in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK. A sociologist and political scientist, she researches gender within historical and contemporary religious contexts focusing on Christianity and Islam, as well as feminism and ethnic relations within the contexts of social movements and public policy.

Beatrice Halsaa is Professor in Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway. A political scientist, she researches the institutionalization of gender equality politics in Norway, the history of women's and gender research, feminist utopias, as well as feminism and ethnic relations within the contexts of social movements and public policy.