Women and Religion in the West: Challenging SecularizationKristin Aune, Sonya Sharma, Giselle Vincett This volume arises from several core questions concerning women's religiosity in the West: Why do women predominate numerically in religion? Given this, why are many disaffiliating? And when they leave, where are they going and what are they doing? |
Contents
Watch the Women | 23 |
Figures | 24 |
12 | 44 |
British Evangelical Women | 57 |
Exploring the Sexual Selves | 71 |
2 | 105 |
4 | 112 |
Paganism Goddess Religion | 119 |
New Forms of Spiritualized Christianity | 133 |
Religion and Womens Changing Lives | 147 |
What Quantitative Data can reveal | 165 |
Reconfiguring the Modern Knowledge | 183 |
Muslim Immigrant Women in the United | 207 |
Afterword | 221 |
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