Women and Religious Traditions

Name: Women and Religious Traditions
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ISBN: 9780195432015

ISBN-10: 0195432010

ISBN-13: 9780195432015

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Leona M. Anderson, Pamela Dickey Young

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Religious scholar Winston L. King said that 'religion is the organization of life around the depth dimensions of experience - varied in form, completeness, and clarity in accordance with the environing culture'. In Women and Religious Traditions, editors Leona M. Anderson and Pamela DickeyYoung work with the notion of 'depth dimension' by focusing on how people - women - conceive and contextualize their worlds. Through nine chapters and four case studies of analysis, the editors and contributors attempt to give a voice to women who, up until recently, have been extremely underrepresented in religious scholarship and discourse. Organized by themes such as history, texts, symbols, sexuality,…

Book details

List price: $83.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.100

Pamela Dickey Young is professor and interim director of the School of Religion at Queen's University.



Contributors


Preface


Introduction




Women in Hindu Traditions




Women in Judaism




Women in the Buddhist Traditions




Women in the Chinese Traditions




Women in Indigenous Traditions




Women in Christianity




Women in Islam




Women in Sikhism




Women in New Age Traditions




Both Guru and Goddess: Mata Amritanandamayi of Kerala




Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha Unite




L'autre Parole: A Christian and Feminist Collective in Quebec




Two Muslim Women in North America



Glossary


Index