Includes index.

1. Introduction: the continuing relevance of religion for understanding gender roles, identities and relationships in society -- 2. Gender in religion, religion in society: the agency and identity of christian women -- 3. The feminism conundrum: a contested term for the study of religion and gender -- 4. Oppression or liberation? moving beyond binaries in religion and gender studies -- 5. Gender, religion, and postcolonialism: the Birhen sa balintawak and masculinities in the Philippines -- 6. Buddist nuns and civil activism in transitional Myanmar -- 7: Reclaiming public and digital spaces: the conundrum of acceptance for the feminist movement in Pakistan -- 8. Social media and online environments: Muslim and Mormon bloggers in the United States of America -- 9. Space, boundaries and borders in the study of religion, gender and society -- 10. Bodies and embodiment: the somatic turn in the study of religion and gender -- 11. Narrative approaches to religion and gender: a biographic study with Christian young men -- 12. When my work is found wanting: power, intersectionality, postcolonialism, and the reflective feminist researcher -- 13. Butch lesbians, femme queens and promiscuous clergy: queering the body politics of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa -- 14. Gender variance and the Abrahamic faiths -- 15. Migration and law in the Middle East and North Africa -- 16. Religion and intimate life: marriage, family, sexuality -- 17. Age, gender and de-churchisation -- 18. Gender, religion and childhood: toward a new research agenda -- 19. Mothers, Bodhisattvas and women of tomorrow: religiously connoted gender roles in a Buddist vocational school in Japan -- 20. Articulating the neoliberal motherhood discourse: visions of gender in Japanese new religions -- 21. Women, religion and the state: a gendered analysis of the Catholic Church, the state and the rise of Evangelical Protestantism on women's roles and women's rights in Brazil -- 22. Religion, gender justice, violence and peace -- 23. Religion and sexual violence -- 24. Religion, gender and international development: searching for game changers in the midst of polarization -- 25. A decological way to dialogue: rethinking ecofeminism and religion -- 26. Religion and gender in Europe : thinking through politico-social and theoretical challenges -- 27. Religion and masculinities in Europe -- 28. The legacy of colonialism and the regulation of gender in North America -- 29. Troubling the demonic: anti-Blackness, heterosexual Black masculinity, and the study of religion in North America -- 30. Religion and gender dynamics in Latin American societies -- 31. Latin America-religion, gender. masculinities and sexual diversity nationalism and religious change -- 32. Women, religion and social inequality in India: intersectionality, nationalism and religious change -- 33. Hindu muscular nationalism: politicized Hinduism and manhood in India -- 34. 'A monster had eaten me whole' : religiously inspired charitable organisations (RICOs) as 'retreat' for women in contemporary urban China -- 35. Masculinities and religion in Southeast Asia -- 36. Reform, continuities and conservatism in the Middle East and North Africa -- 37. Toward a comprehensive approach to understanding the construction of Islamic masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa -- 38. Exploring tensions: gender and religion in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 39. Religions and masculinities in Africa: power, politics, performance -- 40. Women and religion in Oceania -- 41. Masculinity, religion, rugby and society in Oceania

Starkey, C. (Ed.)., Tomalin, E. (Ed.). (2022). Routledge.