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Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society

Cavaliere, Paola

2015

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Social service / Social service -- Religious aspects / Women / Women -- Political activity -- Japan / Women -- Religious life -- Japan / Women -- Social conditions -- Japan / Women volunteers in social service / Women volunteers in social service -- Japan
• ISBN: 9004282165, 9789004282162