Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Arvind Sharma is Professor at McGill University. He is the editor of Women in World Religions and the upcoming Religion and Women, both published by SUNY Press.
Table of Contents
Aboriginal women's religion / Diane Bell -- Women in Hinduism / Katherine K. Young -- Women in Buddhism / Nancy Schuster Barnes -- Women, the state, and religion today in the People's Republic of China / Miriam Levering -- Women and Chinese religion in contemporary Taiwan / Barbara Reed -- Today's Jewish women / Denise L. Carmody -- Christianity and women in the modern world / Rosemary R. Ruether -- Women in Islam / Jane I. Smith -- Studying women and religion / Rita M. Gross.