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Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions

Edited by Joseph Runzo and Nancy Martin



Introduction



Two forces which gathered strength in the last half of the twentieth century now dominate the world religions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The first is the globalization of religions and their resulting encounter with each other, and the second is the need to redefine attitudes toward gender as women have stepped forward to insist that their full humanity be acknowledged in the religious as well as the social realm.

In a process begun in the nineteenth century and accelerated in the twentieth, the great religions of the world became truly global in the geographic distribution of their adherents and so began to impact and influence each other's adherents in new ways. From Asia, Buddhism and Hinduism began seriously to influence the West for the first time in the twentieth century, in part spurred by the first meeting of the Parliament of the World......

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