ISBN:
978-1-78831-269-1
,
978-1-84885-427-7
,
1-84885-427-7
,
978-1-78672-947-7 / (e-book)
,
978-0-85771-918-8 / (e-book)
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 274 Seiten
Edition:
New paperback edition
Series Statement:
Library of Development Studies 2
Keywords:
Indien Rajasthan
;
Frau
;
Frau und Religion
;
Feminismus
;
Frauenforschung
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Ungleichheit
;
Religion
;
Ländliches Gebiet
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Nichtregierungsorganisation
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Entwicklung, soziale
;
Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
;
Entwicklungsethnologie
Abstract:
Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent important providers of social development. And yet, religious teachings continue to be used to exclude women from public decision making forums and render them vulnerable to increasing levels of domestic violence. In a multi-disciplinary approach, combining a range of subjects, Tamsin Bradley provides a unique study of the role of secular and faith organizations in the lives of women in rural Rajasthan. Religion and Gender in the Developing World shows how many religious spaces exist which afford women opportunities to interact with one another and create an identity for themselves. However, faith proves not just to be a positive sphere in which women are able to assert themselves. Its ambiguity becomes clear as the author explains that religious women often find their visions of social justice and equality marginalised by the dominance of male leadership. Nevertheless, Bradley also looks at how religious women challenge male dominance, drawing on their beliefs and practices in creative and innovative ways. Thus a complex picture emerges, and by including insights from gender studies and anthropology, Bradley argues that religion can both empower and disempower local communities, and the women who live within them. By analysing development through a prism of different disciplines, Bradley highlights the complex nature of power relations that are at the very heart of development agendas and organizations and offers an invaluable contribution to the analysis of varied disciplines in the analysis of women and religion in Rajasthan. This book will be of interest to students, reseachers and policy makers involved in various fields, including those of Development Studies, Religion, Gender Studies and Social Anthropology. --Book Jacket.
Description / Table of Contents:
Reviewing the links between religion, gender and development -- Understanding global development through religion and gender -- Gender, mothering and development: case studies of three Hindu transnational movements -- What is a faith-based organization? -- Can compassion bring results? Reflections on the work of an intermediary FBO -- Competing visions of development: the story of a faith-based partnership -- Gender, Gandhi and community organizations -- Physical religious spaces in the lives of Rajasthani village women -- Positioning religion in research and activism to end domestic violence in Rajasthan -- Puja as an approach to health care.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-267
