The aim of this book is to suggest an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex relations of gender, religion and politics in light of paradigmatic shifts in theories of modernity and the growing body of studies on gender and religion.

The book focuses particularly on Muslim, Christian and Jewish women of diverse nationalities as they engage in politics while constructing and navigating modernity

Introduction: Untangling Modernities; H.Herzog & A.Braude PART I: GENDER, RELIGION AND POLITICS: CONTINGENT RELATIONS Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam; J.Casanova Imagined Communities: State, Religion and Jewish Religious Women Settlers; H.Herzog Contemporary American Catholicism and the Challenge of Gender Equality; M.Segers PART II: WOMEN'S AGENCY BETWEEN RELIGION AND STATE From Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: Intermarriage and Conversion in the Jewish Nation State; D.Hacker Seeking Recognition: Women's Struggle to Full Citizenship in the Community of Religious Worship; P.Lahav 'Subway Women' and the American Near East Relief in Anatolia 1919-1924; A.Lapidot-Firilla Global Sisterhood: Transnational Perspectives on Gender and Religion; G.Hüwelmeier PART III: GENDER SPACES: CULTURE, RELIGION AND POLITICS Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror; S.Mahamood Patriarchal Ecumenism, Feminism and Women's Religious Experiences in Costa Rica; E.Vuola The Boundaries of Liberation, the Chains of Freedom: Urban Women in the 1960s' Egyptian Popular Cinema; S.Bachar Language, Gender and Power in Morocco; F.Sadiqi