| Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society Contributor(s): Cavaliere (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004282165 ISBN-13: 9789004282162 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $136.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work - Social Science | Women's Studies - Religion |
| Dewey: 305.43 |
| LCCN: 2014038662 |
| Series: Social Sciences in Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women's participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women's faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation. |