Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions

Morny Joy is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary.

• 1. Sexual Violence, Religion and Women's Rights in a Global PerspectiveLouise du Toit, Stellenbosch University, South Africa2. Understanding Human Rights from Indigenous Women's PerspectivesSylvia Marcos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico3. Women, Ordination, and a Buddhist Perspective: A Violation of Rights? Carola Roloff, University of Hamburg4. Examining Competing Claims in the Dialogue over Sex Education in Ontario: Women, Rights and ReligionPamela Dickey Young, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario5. Continued Discrimination under the Indian ActBeverly Jacobs, University of Windsor, Ontario6. Women's Rights and Religion: Jewish StyleNorma Baumel Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal7. Maria Clara in the 21st Century: The Uneasy Discourse between the Cult of the Virgin Mary and the Filipino Women's Lived RealitiesJeane C. Peracullo, De La Salle University8. The Reconstruction of Muslim Women's Property Rights in the 21st CenturyZaleha Kamaruddin, International Islamic University Malaysia9. Charity and Justice: A Conversation with Evangelical Christian Women Serving Marginalized Populations in British ColumbiaKathryn Chan, University of Victoria, and Erin Thrift (PhD candidate, Simon Fraser University)10. Women, Rights Talk, and African PentecostalismRosalind I.J. Hackett, University of Tennessee11. Politicizing Piety: Women's Rights and Roles in the Tarbiyah Movement in IndonesiaDiah Ariani Arimbi, Airlangga University, Indonesia12. Women's Freedom of Religion Claims in Canada: Assessing the Role of ChoiceJennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton, both at University of Calgary13. Women, Rights and Religion in India: Questioning the TraditionAsha Mukherjee, Visva-Bharati Central University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India14. Caring Detachment in Buddhism and Implications for Women's RightsSuwanna Satha-Anand, Chulalongkorn University15. Afterword: Women and Religion in Global and Local PerspectivePaul Bramadat, University of Victoria