Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. His publications include Hinduism and Human Rights (2004) and Hinduism On Its Own Terms (2016). He is also the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (2017).Arvind Sharma has been a member of the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University since 1987. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, and the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and at the Brookings Institute. He also received a Maxwell Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is the author of Are Human Rights Western? (2006) and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology (2005).Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor at McGill University, Canada.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Open Space and Double Locks: The Hindutva Appropriation of Female GenderChapter 3: Women as Fundamental and Fundamentalist Women: The Case of Buddhist Sri LankaChapter 4: Confucianism and Chinese ReligionChapter 5: Reading from Right to Left: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Women's Changing Role in Jewish SocietiesChapter 6: Fundamentalism and Women in ChristianityChapter 7: Miniskirts and Fundamentalist Fashions: Clothing the Muslim Canadian Woman

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