Women in World Religions

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, in Montreal Canada. He is the editor of the widely read Women in World Religions (1987) and the award winning Feminism in World Religions (1999).

• Chapter 1: Women in the Jewish Tradition: Contemporary Trends and Future Possibilities.- Chapter 2: Women and Christianity.- Chapter 3: Legal, Hermeneutical, and Activist Considerations in Mapping the Future for Muslim Women.- Chapter 4: Hinduism for Women: Present and Future Prospects for Socio-Spiritual Emancipation.- Chapter 5: Indigenous, Non-Western “Feminisms” in Early Buddhist Literature.- Chapter 6: Preserving Tradition: Jain Women.- Chapter 7: Women in Sikhism Revisited.- Chapter 8: Women’s Learning in the Confucian Tradition and Contemporary China —Learned Women, “Leftover” Women, and “The Third Sex”.- Chapter 9: Daoism and Women in Contemporary China.