Explorations in women, rights, and religions / edited by Morny Joy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sexual violence, religion and women's rights in a global perspective / Louise du Toit -- Understanding human rights from indigenous women's perspectives / Sylvia Marcos -- Women, ordination, and a Buddhist perspective : a violation of rights? / Carola Roloff (Bhikṣunī Jampa Tsedroen) -- Continued discrimination under the Indian Act / Beverly Jacobs -- Examining competing claims in the dialogue over sex education in Ontario : women, rights and religion / Pamela Dickey Young -- Women's rights and religion : Jewish style / Norma Baumel Joseph -- Maria Clara in the twenty-first century : the uneasy discourse between the cult of the Virgin Mary and Filipino women's lived realities / Jeane C. Peracullo -- The reconstruction of Muslim women's property rights in the twenty-first century / Zaleha Kamaruddin -- Charity and justice : a conversation with evangelical Christian women serving marginalized populations in British Columbia / Kathryn Chan and Erin Thrift -- Women, rights talk, and African Pentecostalism / Rosalind I. J. Hackett -- Politicizing piety : women's rights and roles in the Tarbiyah Movement in Indonesia / Diah Ariani Arimbi -- Women's freedom of religion claims in Canada : assessing the role of choice / Jennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton -- Women, rights and religion in India : questioning the tradition / Asha Mukherjee (Dubey) -- Caring detachment in Buddhism and implications for women's rights / Suwanna Satha-Anand -- Afterword: Women and religion in global and local perspective / Paul Bramadat.