Mixed blessings : gender and religious fundamentalism cross culturally / edited by Judy Brink and Joan Mencher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Joan Mencher -- The peace that passes all understanding : violence, the family and fundamentalist knowledge in Colombia / Elizabeth Brusco -- Buddhist nuns : protests, struggle, and the reinterpretation of orthodoxy in Sri Lanka / Hema Goonatilake -- Islamic "fundamentalism" and female empowerment among the muslims of Hainan Island, People's Republic of China / Keng-Fong Pang -- Voices from the margins : evangelical feminist negotiation in the public debate of a small denomination in the United States / Janet Stocks -- A separate unity : female networking and status in a contemporary Mormon polygynous commune / Janet Bennion -- A strange road home : adult female converts to classical Pentecostalism / Nancy L. Eiesland -- Ideology and identity : Islamism, gender, and the state in Sudan / Sondra Hale -- Ideal womanhood in postrevolutionary Iran / Erika Friedl -- Giving birth to a settlement: maternal thinking and political action of Jewish women on the west bank / Tamar El-Or and Gideon Aran -- A mixed blessing: the Majales - shi'a women's rituals of mourning in northwest Pakistan / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Lost rituals: sunni muslim women in rural Egypt / Judy Brink -- Fundamentalist politics and women in India / Ilina Sen -- Conclusion. The mixed blessings of women's fundamentalism: democratic impulses in a patriarchal world / Janet L. Bauer.