Theory of Women in Religions
Theory of Women in Religions An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious culturesWhile women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many…
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Theory of Women in Religions
An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious culturesWhile women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Taliban occupation girls and women students and their teachers risk their lives to go to school. In the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women are not ordained as priests.
Is it possible to create families, societies, and religions in which women and men are equal? And in Sri Lanka, fully ordained Buddhist nuns are denied the government identity cards that recognize them as citizens. And if so, what are the factors that promote equality?Theory of Women in Religions offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective