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Article: The Status of Women in Religion
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- May 13, 1994
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Shivaji Sengupta
India Abroad
05-13-1994
The Status of Women in Religion.
This is a follow-up book to one published in 1987, "Woman in World Religions," by the same publisher. That work, according to the editor, Katherine K. Young, focused on religion in societies that had undergone formation of states, defined by anthropologists as large-scale or complex societies.
This volume examines more religions of large-scale societies of the universal-reform type. By this the editor means "religions based on an associational identity formed by voluntary allegiance to a leader or by conversion to the founded religion characterized by a reformed life, experience and universal salvation."
In this book ...