Symposium on Religion and Gender

✍ Scribed by Sylvia Marcos; Rosalind Hackett

• Book ID: 102620191
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0048-721X
• DOI: 10.1006/reli.1998.0139

✦ Synopsis

At the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions held in Mexico City from August 5-11, 1995, eight panels were organized on 'Gender and Religion' to examine the ways in which religious ideas, activities, experiences, institutions, metaphors, symbols, and narratives, etc. might constitute a form of agency for women in a diversity of geographical and historical contexts, namely Brazil,