Women and world religions / Lucinda Joy Peach.

Author/creator Peach, Lucinda J.
Format Book
Publication InfoUpper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2002.
Descriptionxiii, 394 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Contenthttp://reserves.lib.umanitoba.ca:80/ExternalLoadDoc.asp?docid=6838
Subjects

Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Preliminary Considerations: Why Study Women and World Religion? -- Similarities and Differences in Women's Experience -- Outline of Chapter Organization -- Ch. 2. Women and Hinduism -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Hinduism -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Essence and Existence: Women and Religion in Ancient Indian Texts / Julia Leslie -- Devadasi Reform: Driving the Priestesses or the Prostitutes Out of Hindu Temples? / Kay K. Jordan -- Religious Ideology, Hindu Women, and Development in India / Vanaja Dhruvarajan -- Ch. 3. Women and Buddhism -- Relationship and Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Buddhism -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentaries on the Therigatha / Susan Murcott -- Mahaprajapati's Legacy: The Buddhist Women's Movement: An Introduction / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Thai Buddhism: Women's Ordination or More Prostitution? / Ouyporn Khuankaew -- Ch. 4. Women and Other Asian Religious Traditions -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Asian Religions -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Women and Shinto: The Relation Between Purity and Pollution / Karen A. Smyers -- Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa / Susan Sered -- Confucianism / Theresa Kelleher -- Ch. 5. Women and Judaism -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Judaism -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Portrayals of Women in the Hebrew Bible / Susan Niditch -- Ladies of the Sisterhood: Women in the American Reform Synagogue, 1900-1930 / Pamela Nadell and Rita J. Simon -- Personal Vignettes / Susan Grossman and Rivka Haut -- Ch. 6. Women and Christianity -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Christianity -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Sisters in Christ or Daughters of Eve? / Deborah Sawyer -- Unfinished Symphony of Liberation: The Radicalization of Christian Feminism Among White U.S. Women / Carter Heyward -- Mujerista Theology: A Challenge to Traditional Theology / Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz -- Ch. 7. Women and Islam -- Overview of Islam -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Islam -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Meaning of the Glorious Koran -- Excerpts from Ravi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam / Margaret Smith -- Muted Voices of Women Interpreters / Bouthaina Shaaban -- Ch. 8. Women and African Religions -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to African Religions -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Women in African Religions / Rosiland Hackett -- Religion's Chief Clients / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Alourdes: A Case Study of Moral Leadership in Haitian Vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Ch. 9. Women and Goddess-Centered Religions -- Relationship of Female-Gendered and Feminine Images and Symbols to "Real" Women -- Women's Relationship to Goddess-Centered Religions -- Changes in the Status of Women -- Essay Selections -- Birth of a New Religion / Cynthia Eller -- Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections / Carol P. Christ -- Reclaiming the Sacred / Jennifer Connor / Starhawk -- From the House of Yemanja: The Goddess Heritage of Black Women / Sabrina Sojourner.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Peach, Lucinda J. Women and world religions. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2002
LCCN 2001036862
ISBN0130404446
ISBN9780130404442

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Joyner General Stacks BL458 .P43 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold