Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement

by Catherine A. Robinson

Robinson (religious studies, Bath Spa U. College) shows how leaders of the movement have restated aspects of the religious tradition in a society where religion has been central to debate about the position of women, and where opposition to the movement has been rationalized in terms of religion. She explains that different members of the movement have advanced different interpretations of the tradition and so have had different reasons for and against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700711430
• ISBN13: 9780700711437
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"