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Tables of Contents for Women and Revivalism in the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1
A shared voice
1
1
Postmodernism: women and politics
2
3
Right-wing women
5
4
Revivalisms and Feminisms
9
28
`Fundamentalism' and the construction of a fanatical `Other'
9
2
Revivalisms - Christian and Islamic
11
2
Millennialism, pessimism and Christian revival
13
1
Islamic and Christian revivalist groups in the West
14
3
Christian revival: `signs and wonders' in Britain and the United States
17
3
Islamic revival: science and `naturalness' versus postmodernism
20
2
Protestantism and women
22
1
Protestant fundamentalism and gender: the recipe for feminine submission
23
2
Feminisms within religious traditions
25
1
Muslim and Islamic or `Islamist' feminist scholars of Islam
25
1
Islamic feminists
26
2
Muslim feminists
28
1
Progressive readings of Islam
28
1
Feminist theology and biblical feminism
29
5
Why revivalisms?
34
3
Reflexive Methodology
37
40
Introduction
37
1
Feminist methodology and epistemology
38
10
Method
48
13
Questionnaires
61
6
Power
67
5
Difficult issues - caught in the crossfire: reframing
72
2
Mixed methods
74
3
Marriage, Obedience and Feminine Submission
77
26
Feminine submission
77
2
The concept of submission
79
2
The question
81
1
Muslim responses
82
2
Christian responses
84
1
Submission in evangelical Christian marriage
85
5
Leadership and submission
90
5
Responses that disrupt the stereotypical image
95
4
Submission is a complex issue
99
4
Rights and Responsibilities
103
24
Rights
104
4
Pre-Islamic and pre-Christian conditions
108
4
Respondents to the snowball questionnaire and rights under British law today
112
2
Rights and religious affiliation
114
3
Marriage, motherhood and divorce
117
1
Islamic feminist approaches to claiming Islamic rights
118
4
Women's tafsir
122
1
Feminist and non-feminist strategies
123
4
Modesty Codes and the Veil
127
32
Modesty and head covering in Islam and Islamic revival
127
1
Hajib and hijab
128
1
Hijab: criticisms and counter-arguments
129
16
Modesty and head covering in Christianity and the new Christian churches
145
3
Christian responses: modesty
148
2
Covering in Christianity
150
3
Modesty and everyday life
153
3
Head covering and modesty in two traditions
156
3
Empowerment through Revivalisms: Some Gains and Losses
159
26
Empowerment
159
4
Rational choice theory
163
1
The Christian respondents
164
4
The Muslim respondents
168
1
Converts: family and friends
169
1
The gains
170
13
Kinds of empowerment
183
2
Conclusion
185
4
Notes
189
6
Bibliography
195
12
Index
207