This selection of essays by way of the world over well known girls students either contests the idea of fundamentalism and makes an attempt to discover locations the place it may possibly convege with women's roles within the numerous world's religions. The essayists discover fundamentalism as a procedure or approach to proscribing women's spiritual roles and consider the ways in which girls embody sure elements of fundamentalism. The essays hide Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The participants examine the ways in which ladies "fight again" opposed to fundamentalist conceptions of relations, gender roles, doctrinal practices, ritual practices, and God or theistic constructs. The writers reassert and look after their identities by means of hard the static different types of fundamentalism. The essays comprise deep and robust explorations of the intersections of tradition, faith, and feminism.
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