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5. Women, Religion, and Development

Abu Nsr, J., and I. Lorfing. Women and Economic Development in the Arab World. Beirut: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, 1988.

Afshar, H. "Development Studies and Women in the Middle East: The Dilemmas of Research and Development." In Women in the Middle East: Perceptions, Realities, and Struggles for Liberation, ed. H.Afshar, 3–17. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1993.

Asoegwu, M. V. N. "Women in Religion and Development: A Comparative Study of Roman Catholic Church and An African Independent Church." PhD thesis, Loyola University of Chicago (USA), 1993.

Bhasin, K., et al., eds. Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion, and Development from India and Pakistan. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1994.

Carroll, T. F. Women, Religion, and Development in the Third World. New York: Praeger, 1983.

Dhruvarajan, V. "Religious Ideology, Hindu Women, and Development in India." Journal of Social Issues 46, no. 3 (1990): 57–69.

Dietrich, G. Reflections on the Women’s Movement in India: Religion, Ecology, Development. New Delhi: Horizon India Books, 1992.
_______. "The World as the Body of God: Feminist Perspectives on Ecology and Social Justice."Journal of Dharma 18, no. 3 (1993): 258–84.

Gudorf, C. E. "Finding the Sources of Hope: Women and Development." Theology and Public Policy 8, nos. 1–2 (1996): 30–41.

Haddad, Y. Y., and E. B. Findly, eds. Women, Religion, and Social Change. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1985.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck., et al. The Islamic Revival since 1988: A Critical Survey and Bibliography. West Port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Jamal Al-Lail, H. R. "Muslim Women between Tradition and Modernity: The Islamic Response." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 16, no. 1 (1996): 99–110.

Kausar, Z. Women in Feminism and Politics: New Directions towards Islamization.[Malaysia]: Women’s Affairs Secretariat, Student Affairs Division, International Islamic University of Malaysia, 1995.
_______. "Development or De-development: An Analysis of the Congruences and Contradictions between the Claims of the Rights of Women and Children." Islam and the Modern Age (Delhi) 28, no. 2 (1997): 115–46.

Rashiduzzaman, M. "The Dichotomy of Islam and Development: NGOs, Women’s Development and Fatawa in Bangladesh." Contemporary South Asia 6, no. 3 (1997): 239–46.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, ed. Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996.

Salleh, K. M. Women In Development. Kuala Lumpur: Institut Kajian Dasar, 1994.

Spoelders, B. "Rethinking Development and the Feminist versus Islamist Dichotomy." Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 9, no. 3 (1998): 295–306.

Tellis-Mayak, J. B. "Efforts at Women’s Development: A Professional and Personal Perspective." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 7, no. 2 (1991): 139–48.

 

 

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