The rowman & littlefield handbook of women’s studies in religion
The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Lanham
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook Series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Woman studies
/ Science of Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Women and religion
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE. A FIRMLY FLUID FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION -- CHAPTER 1. A Work in Progress: Feminist Scholarship Shaping God's Image-Then and Now -- CHAPTER 2. The Inclusive Language of God: Why It Matters for Women's Studies in Religion -- CHAPTER 3. Doing Women's Studies in Religion: A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life -- CHAPTER 4. Women's Creative Research Methodologies on the Periphery and at the Border: Latina Women's Restorative Interventions through Art and Activism -- SECTION TWO. ETHICAL CONNECTIONS -- CHAPTER 5. Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges -- CHAPTER 6. Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All -- CHAPTER 7. Feminist Ethics and the Harms of Credibility Excess -- CHAPTER 8. Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Health Care's Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women's Pain -- SECTION THREE. RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION -- CHAPTER 9. Constructing Wicca as "Women's Religion": A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship -- CHAPTER 10. For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities -- CHAPTER 11. Introducing Asian Transpacific North American Feminist Theology -- CHAPTER 12. "I Am the One Who Will Change the Direction of the World": A Female Guru's Response to Sexual Inequality and Violence in Hinduism -- CHAPTER 13. Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years -- CHAPTER 14. Muslimah Theology and Praxis -- CHAPTER 15. Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church -- SECTION FOUR. CHALLENGING AND CHANGING SYSTEMIC GENDER INJUSTICE. |
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| ISBN: | 1538154455 |