How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's movements and feminism? Via interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain and the UK, this book explores intersections between religion, citizenship, gender and feminism.
1. Faithful women: Religious women in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom talk about faith, citizenship, gender and feminism
2. Binaries and complexities in the study of religion, gender, feminism and citizenship: Towards lived religion and lived citizenship
3. Religious identities and meaning-making
4. Religion and citizenship as lived practice: Intersections of faith, gender, participation and belonging
5. Religion and gender equality
6. Women's Movements and Feminism
7. Faithful women: Lived religion and citizenship, gender equality and feminism
Religion, Gender and Citizenship is an important intervention in the topic of religious women and their everyday lives. It does not rely on religious texts or rituals to reach conclusions, but rather takes an honest look at religious woman from three European countries & . The book does an excellent job of demonstrating how women negotiate citizenship, belonging, faith and the issue of how to relate to both women of different faiths and secular women. (Haje Keli, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, April, 2018)
This book is based on a comparative study of Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It is a result of research conducted within the research project FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Womens Movements. &Nyhagen and Halsaa have provided a fascinating and thorough alãš