Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion

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Syracuse University Press, 1 jan 2003 - 176 pagina's
This important book offers an edifying narrative of Indonesian women who find a new and powerful voice in the course of preparing to become Christian pastors and theologians in their native land. By assuming roles of responsibility, these women stand ready to transform understandings of gender differences that have traditionally governed Indonesian culture, like the notion that women are an inferior sex and not suited to leadership. In a broader sense, they join a growing global course toward gender equality and the evolution of women’s spirituality. Frances S. Adeney clearly shows how religious-inspired resistance led these women to create new practices and theologies designed to foster parity. Realizing that Western ideas are inapplicable to foreign issues of gender and religion, the author sheds light on the twin questions of cultural isolation and the complexities of doing research in the postmodern era.
 

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Introduction to Part
3
Indonesia
16
Gender Ideologies
32
The Challenge of University Life
53
Strategies of Resistance
76
Strategies of Growth
104
Introduction to Part
129
Social Theory as Practice
138
Using Theories Across Cultures
153
Feminist Theory versus Advocacy
172
Appendix
191
References
199
Index
213
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Over de auteur (2003)

Frances S. Adeney is a professor at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She has written on ethics and spirituality in both the United States and Indonesia, including contributions to Ethics and World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies, Religious Studies Review, and Buddhist-Christian Studies.

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