系列：世界上的女性与宗教
宗教常常被视为限制女性社会角色的根源。这本书探讨了亚洲的现代女性如何动员她们的信仰传统来解决公共和私人领域中遇到的与经济、公众参与、政治和文化有关的生存问题。因此，研究表明，宗教可以成为社会变革和改善妇女生活的强大力量，尽管过去曾使用宗教教义来限制妇女。
编辑Zayn R.Kassam博士和撰稿人不仅报道了人们普遍认为的印度教、伊斯兰教和佛教的“亚洲”传统，还报道了基督教、犹太教、巴哈伊教和土著传统。这本书揭示了亚洲妇女面临的挑战和机遇来自国内外，无论是在国内发展方面，还是在国际政治和经济体制方面。这些章节探讨了亚洲女性面临的问题与文化和宗教规范以及政治、经济、教育和法律的关系；考虑不同的方式，家庭和母性受国家的性别公民的建构，母性的社会结构，以及关于妇女和儿童获得保健的政策的影响；并确定宗教和灵性在这些情况下扮演的角色。
Women and Asian Religions
Series: Women and Religion in the World
Religion has often been perceived as the source of constriction for women’s roles in society. This volume explores how modern women across Asia are mobilizing their faith traditions to address existential issues encountered in both the public and private realms, relating to economics, public participation, politics, and culture. As such, it is revealed that religion can be a powerful force for social change and ameliorating women’s lives, despite use of religious doctrine in the past to limit women.
Editor Zayn R. Kassam, PhD, and the contributors cover not only the commonly considered “Asian” traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism but also Christianity, Judaism, Bahai, and indigenous traditions. The book reveals that the challenges and opportunities Asian women face arise both from within and outside, whether in terms of developments within their countries or in relation to international political and economic regimes. The chapters explore how the issues Asian women face have as much to do with cultural and religious codes as they do with politics, economics, education, and the law; consider the varying ways in which family and motherhood are affected by the state’s construction of the gendered citizen, by social constructs of motherhood, and by policies regarding women and children’s access to health care; and identify the roles played by religion and spirituality in these circumstances.
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