Women's Studies in Religion A Multicultural Reader

Name: Women's Studies in Religion A Multicultural Reader
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ISBN: 9780131108318

ISBN-10: 013110831X

ISBN-13: 9780131108318

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kate Bagley, Kathleen McIntosh

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Responding to the call to broaden the conversation between feminists and religious studies and those working in women's studies, this reader places the literature of women's spirituality within the context of broader feminist themes. The essays provide an accessible presentation that examines the impact of contemporary feminism on the practice and study of religion and reveals how feminism has affected religious institutions, theology and individual religious/spiritual practice. The essays address literature on women and religion in relation to women's studies as a discipline. They cover reform and revolution, religious history as herstory, conflicting retelling of the past, unspoken…

Book details

List price: $86.60
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 2/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Suggested Readings and Web Sites



Starting from Experience


Following Naked Dancing and Long Dreaming



A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-A Woman's Journey



White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus



Mediations of the Spirit: Native American Religious Traditions and the Ethics of Representation



Mothers and Daughters, Writers and Fighters



Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas



Challah for the Queen of Heaven



Questions for Discussion


Suggested Readings and Web Sites



Confronting Tradition


Expressing Anger at God



The Church and the Second Sex



Violence against Women in the Historical Christian West and in North American Secular Culture: The Visual and Textual Evidence



"Take My Yoke upon You": The Role of the Church in the Oppression of African-American Women



Falling off the Tightrope onto a Bed of Feathers



The Issue of Woman-Man Equality in the Islamic Tradition



"Jihad Fi Sabil Allah": A Muslim Woman's Faith Journey from Struggle to Struggle to Struggle



Why Women Need the Goddess



The Coming of Lilith



From Riot Grrl to Yeshiva Girl, or How I Became My Own Damn Rabbi



Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess



Questions for Discussion


Suggested Readings and Web Sites



Embodying Our Hope


The Goddess as Metaphoric Image



Guadalupe the Sex Goddess



Rev. Irene Monroe



Toward a New Theology of Sexuality



The Good Mother: From Gaia to Gilead



Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing



Questions for Discussion


Suggested Readings and Web Sites


Index