Gender, Faith, and Development
Faith-based organizations have long been involved in charitable and development activities. However, the emerging openness to thinking about and engaging with religion in development raises some important questions. Does religious engagement in development policy and practice risk harming already fragile gender relations? What are the challenges and opportunities in negotiating the relationships between religion, gender, and development? Gender, Faith, and Development explores in different ways the relationships between religion, gender, and development. Subjects covered include attitudes towards sexual behaviour in areas with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS; household disputes over the control of income; constraints on women’s time; the difficulties of introducing Western models of gender equity to those in Muslim societies who see feminism as a threat; and changes in abortion legislation. This book is essential reading for academics and researchers in development, gender, political science, sociology, or religious studies, and of interest to development policy makers and practitioners, voluntary sector workers, and social movement activists.
Series: Working in Gender & Development
Published: 2011
Pages: 160
eBook: 9781780440217
Paperback: 9781853397264
1 Introduction 1 | |||
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Emma Tomalin | |||
2 The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into | |||
development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project | |||
in Yemen 13 | |||
Brenda Bartelink and Marjo Buitelaar | |||
3 Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities: learning | |||
from attitudes on gender relations and sexual rights within local | |||
evangelical churches in Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, and South | |||
Africa 25 | |||
Mandy Marshall and Nigel Taylor | |||
4 The Thai bhikkhuni movement and women’s empowerment 37 | |||
Emma Tomalin | |||
5 Reflecting on gender equality in Muslim contexts in Oxfam GB 51 | |||
Adrienne Hopkins and Kirit Patel | |||
6 Christianity, development, and women’s liberation 65 | |||
Bridget Walker | |||
7 Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in | |||
horticultural exporting 75 | |||
Catherine S. Dolan | |||
8 No time to worship the serpent deities: women, economic | |||
change, and religion in north-western Nepal 85 | |||
Rebecca Saul | |||
9 A double-edged sword: challenging women’s oppression | |||
within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria 97 | |||
Fatima L. Adamu | |||
10 Islam and development: opportunities and constraints for | |||
Somali women 105 | |||
Sadia Ahmed | |||
11 Abortion law reform in Latin America: lessons for advocacy 111 | |||
Gillian Kane | |||
12 Conclusion: moving forward 127 | |||
Emma Tomalin | |||
Annotated bibliography 137 | |||
Index 145 |
Emma Tomalin Dr. Emma Tomalin is Senior Lecturer in the Department ofTheology and Religious Studies,University of Leeds, UK.
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