TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Gender equality and religion: a multi-faith exploration of young adults' narratives
JO  - European journal of women's studies
A1  - Page, Sarah-Jane
A1  - Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck
SP  - 249
EP  - 265
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
N2  - This article presents findings from research on young adults in the UK from diverse religious backgrounds. Utilizing questionnaires, interviews and video diaries, it assesses how religious young adults understood and managed the tensions in popular discourse between gender equality as an enshrined value and aspirational narrative, and religion as purportedly instituting gender inequality. The article shows that, despite varied understandings, and the ambivalence and tension in managing ideal and practice, participants of different religious traditions and genders were committed to gender equality. Thus, they viewed gender-unequal practices within their religious cultures as an aberration from the essence of religion. In this way, they firmly rejected the dominant discourse that religion is inherently antithetical to gender equality.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1350-5068
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506815625906
ID  - ref1
ER  -