Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.
Contents
American fundamentalism: the ideal of femininity / Randall Balmer -- Indian Islam: the Shah Bano affair / Peter J. Awn -- Hinduism: Sati and its defenders / John S. Hawley -- Japanese new religions: profiles in gender / Helen Hardacre -- "Fundamentalism" objections from a Modern Jewish historian / Jay M. Harris -- Fundamentalism and the control of women / Karen McCarthy Brown.
