Gendering Religion and Politics Untangling Modernities

by Herzog, Hanna; Braude, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780230613089
• ISBN10: 023061308X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Untangling Modernityexplores the multi-dimensional nature and inherently contingent qualities of modernity as they are revealed in the entwine relations between gender religion and politics. Evocative case studies by sociologists, historians, anthropologists, political scientists and theologians situate the discussion in Muslin, Christian and Jewish communities. Twelve outstanding scholars delve into the interconnections of religion, gender and politics that lie beneath domestic and international conflicts. While previous studies portrayed religious women as passive or as relicts of the past, these essays demonstrate their active roles in shaping modernity, and untangle the web of relations connecting women's religiosity to the political processes.

Author Biography

Hanna Herzog is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Anne Braude is Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer in American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School.

Table of Contents

Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude- Introduction: Untangling Modernities * I. Gender, Religion and Politics: Contingent Relations * Jose Casanova- Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam * Hanna Herzog- Imagined Communities: State, Religion and Jewish Religious Women Settlers * Mary Segers- Contemporary American Catholicism and the Challenge of Gender Equality * II. Women’s Agency between Religion and State * Daphna Hacker- From Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: Intermarriage and Conversion in the Jewish Nation State * Pnina Lahav- Seeking Recognition: Women’s Struggle to Full Citizenship in the Community of Religious Worship * Anat Lapidot-Firilla- “Subway Women” and the American Near East Relief in Anatolia 1919-1924 * Gertrud Hüwelmeier- Global Sisterhood: Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Religion * III. Gender Spaces: Culture, Religion and Politics * Saba Mahamood- Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror * Elina Vuola-Patriarchal Ecumenism, Feminism and Women's Religious Experiences in Costa Rica * Shmulik Bachar- The Boundaries of Liberation, the Chains of Freedom: Urban Women in the 1960s’ Egyptian Popular Cinema * Fatima Sadiqi- Language, Gender and Power in Morocco