Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers Women Who Changed American Religion

Name: Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers Women Who Changed American Religion
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ISBN: 9781403964601

ISBN-10: 1403964602

ISBN-13: 9781403964601

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Ann Braude, Ann Braude

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n the past, books on feminism in the 1960s and 1970s have excluded women in religion entirely. This void is filled with a new collection that details the stories of sixteen prominent women leaders in religious communities who actively fought to change society's views of women in religious realms. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, co-founder of Ms.; Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza, feminist Biblical scholar; Carol P. Christ, leader of the Goddess movement; Riffat Hassan, Muslim feminist theolo-gian; and many more share their heroic stories and shed light on issues of faith, feminism, struggles, and triumphs. This com-- pelling compilation of spiritual journeys is essential for any-one inter-ested in the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 6/19/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Ann Braude teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and is co-editor of Roots of Bitterness: Documents in the Social History of American Women.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Lois Miriam Wilson: first woman moderator of the United Church of Canada



Letty Cottin Pogrebin: cofounder, Ms. magazine



Azizah al-Hibri: founder, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights



Virginia Ramey Mollenkott: founding member, Evangelical Women's Caucus



Rosemary Radford Ruether: Catholic feminist theologian



Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz: Latina feminist theologian



Carol P. Christ: leader of the Goddess movement



Delores S. Williams: womanist theologian



Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: feminist biblical scholar



Margaret M. Toscano: cofounder, Mormon Women's Forum



Riffat Hassan: Muslim feminist theologian



Vicki Noble: co-creator, Motherpeace Tarot



Charlotte Bunch: president, Center for Women's Global Leadership



Judith Plaskow: Difference and Power/The Power of Difference



Nadine Foley historian of the Adrian Dominican Congregation



Blu Greenberg founding president, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance


Index