Bulletin > Volume 42 Feminism and Religion: Recent Discussions and Personal Reflections

Yang, Haewon

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The original paper was presented at the Nanzan workshop on gender and religion on 1 March 2018. Based on feedback and comments from Kawahashi Noriko and Kobayashi Naoko, as well as questions from the audience that were kindly translated by Murayama Yumi, the current article has been significantly edited in response to the workshop. Most notably, instead of providing general background to the history of feminism and religion, including discussions on Islamic feminism, I have focused my argument related to regions specific to my research, Japan and South Korea. I have also elaborated on two case studies of the Korean women writers to provide more context.