Hinduism and Women: Uses and Abuses of Religious Freedom

Poverty and Prejudice

“…For example, Lindholm, Durham and Tahzib-Lie's seminal Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Desktop ( 2004) is one of the first scholarly explorations of the subject and contains five chapters exploring women and FoRB. Of those, four are primarily focused on the tensions between religion and women's equality (Borresen 2004;Denli 2004;King 2004;Sheen 2004). The crux of most of these important chapters is that women's equality is compromised as a consequence of power holders' formal and/or informal understandings of religion.…”