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Title Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America / edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether ; associate editor, Marie Cantlon
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 1394 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Integrating the worlds of women's religious experience in North America / Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether -- pt. 1. Approaches to the history of women and religion. Women and religion: methods of study and reflection / Rita M. Gross -- Religions and modern feminism / Ann Braude -- Gender and social roles / Susan Hill Lindley -- North American women interpret scripture / J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell -- Women's religious imagination / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Social ethics, women, and religion / Marilyn J. Legge -- The psychology of women's religious experience / Ann Belford Ulanov -- Women's spiritual biography and autobiography / Rosemary Skinner Keller -- pt. 2. Women in indigenous and African traditions. Native American creation stories / Laura Adams Weaver -- Native American women and Christianity / Kim Stone -- American Indian boarding schools / Andrea Smith -- Appropriation of Native American religious traditions / Andrea Smith -- Religious exchange in Aframerindian life / Patrick Neal Minges -- Women in African Caribbean religious traditions / Dianne M. Stewart -- pt. 3. Catholicism. Women in North American Catholicism / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Religious women in colonial Mexico / Kathleen Ann Myers -- Godmothers and goddaughters: Catholic women in colonial New France and New England / Lisa J.M. Poirier -- American Catholic women, 1820-1900: from the Jacksonian period to the progressive era / Holly Folk -- African American Catholic women / Cecilia A. Moore -- Latina popular Catholicism / Jeanette Rodriguez -- Asian and Pacific American Catholic women / Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada -- American Catholic women, 1900-1965 / Debra Campbell -- American Catholic women since Vatican Council II / Mary Jo Weaver -- Determined builders, powerful voices: women and Catholicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Canada / Carolyn Sharp -- pt. 4. Protestantism. Colonial period. Women and Protestantism in colonial New England / Rebecca Larson -- Protestant women in the Mid-Atlantic colonies / Alison Duncan Hirsch -- Southern colonial Protestant women / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Protestantism in British North America (Canada) / Marilyn Färdig Whiteley -- Denominational traditions. Women and African American denominations / Sandy Dwayne Martin -- Women of Anabaptist traditions / Marlene Epp -- Women in the American Episcopal Church / Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- Women in the Anglican Church in Canada / Sharon Anne Cook -- Baptist women / Carolyn D. Blevins -- Christian Church/Disciples of Christ tradition and women / Loretta M. Long -- Women and Lutheranism / Mary Todd -- Methodist women / Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers -- Quaker women in North America / Mary Van Vleck Garman -- Women in Reformed churches / Rebecca Button Prichard -- Presbyterian women in America / Lois A. Boyd -- Women in the United Church of Canada / Phyllis D. Airhart -- Women in the United Church of Christ / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Women in the Unitarian Universalist movement / Cynthia Grant Tucker
Evangelical Protestantism. Women in Pentecostalism / Edith Blumhofer -- Women in the Salvation Army / Diane Winston -- Revivalism / Priscilla Pope-Levison -- Holiness movements / Nancy A. Hardesty -- Sanctified Church(es) / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Fundamentalism / Margaret L. Bendroth -- America's evangelical women: more than wives and mothers: reformers, ministers, and leaders / Jane Harris -- Charismatic movement / R. Marie Griffith -- Euro-American evangelical feminism / Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner -- Hispanic Protestantism. U.S. Latina evangélicas / Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero -- Race and gender in Latina experience / Teresa Chávez Sauceda -- Hispanic Pentecostal women / Gastón Espinosa -- Asian Protestantism. Asian Pacific American Protestant women / Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim -- pt. 5. Women in Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions. Women in Orthodox Christian traditions / Demetra Velisarios Jaquet -- Oriental Orthodox traditions and the Armenian Apostolic Church / Barbara J. Merguerian -- An orthodox perspective on feminist theology / Valerie A. Karras -- pt. 6. Judaism. Reform Judaism / Karla Goldman -- Tradition and change: finding the right balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Orthodox Jewish women in America: diversity, challenges, and coming of age / Blu Greenberg -- Jewish women and ritual / Hasia R. Diner -- Jewish law and gender / Norma Baumel Joseph -- Anti-Semitism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- pt. 7. Islam. Islam, women, and the struggle for identity in North America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- African American Muslim women / Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Women, Islam, and mosques / Ingrid Mattson -- Women's issues in American Islam / Jane I. Smith -- pt. 8. Asian religions. Buddhism. Origins of Buddhism in North America / Lori Pierce -- Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese / Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson -- The way of the elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana movement / Sandy Boucher -- Tibetan Buddhism / Amy Lavine -- Hinduism. Hinduism in North America including emerging issues / Vasudha Narayanan -- New Hindu movements / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Chinese religions. Religions of Chinese immigrant communities and Chinese religions practiced in North America by non-Chinese people / Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Japanese religions. Religions of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American communities / Ruth M. Tabrah -- Other religions. Women and Jainism in North America / Anne Vallely -- Sikh women in North America / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
pt. 9. Newer religious movements. Women in communitarian societies / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Mormon women / Claudia L. Bushman -- Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Rita M. Lester -- Vodou, spiritism, and Santería: hybridity and identity in Caribbean religions / Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi -- Christian Science / Sarah Gardner Cunningham -- Clara Evans Muhammad: pioneering social activism in the original Nation of Islam / Debra Mubashir Majeed -- Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age movements / Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft -- Spiritualism / Cathy Gutierrez -- Women in the North American Baha'i community / Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger -- Women in new religious movements since the 1960s / Susan J. Palmer -- Women in Jewish renewal / Reena Sigman Friedman -- Ancient matriarchies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist thought / Cynthia Eller -- Women in the Wiccan religion and contemporary paganism / Selena Fox -- pt. 10. Multidenominational movements. The Deaconess movement / Cynthia A. Jurisson -- Missionary movement. Protestant women missionaries: foreign and home / Dana L. Robert -- American Catholic women missionaries: 1870-2000 / Angelyn Dries -- Women's societies. Leadership and community building in Protestant women's organizations / Rosemary Skinner Keller -- "Lifting as we climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW) / National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) / Marcia Y. Riggs -- Religious education. Women and catechetics in the Roman Catholic tradition / Mary L. Putrow -- Catholic women's colleges in the United States / Tracy Schier -- Conservative Christian strategies in education / James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray -- Women and Jewish education / David E. Kaufman -- Protestant Sunday schools and religious education / Virginia Lieson Brereton -- Protestant women's colleges in the United States / Kathleen S. Hurty -- Women in theological education / Jeanne P. McLean -- When women enter the classroom: theory, theology, and teaching / Barbara J. Blodgett -- The ordination movement. Protestant women's ordination movement / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- The women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church / Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau -- Jewish women's ordination / Pamela S. Nadell -- Protestant female preaching in the United States / Catherine A. Brekus -- Music and the arts. Women hymn writers / Edith Blumhofer -- African American hymnody / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Women's novels and religion, 1780-1900 / Diane Capitani -- Women, religion, and American film / Judith Weisenfeld
pt. 11. Women, religion, and social reform. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant social reform movements in the United States / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford -- Antislavery, abolitionism / Anna M. Speicher -- Women and peace movements in North America / Valarie Ziegler -- Settlement House movement / Eleanor J. Stebner -- Social Gospel / Susan Hill Lindley -- Women and Garveyism / Anthea D. Butler -- Civil rights movement / Rosetta E. Ross -- Engaged Buddhist women / Judith Simmer-Brown -- Women's freedom and reproductive rights: the core fear of patriarchy / Frances Kissling -- Ecofeminism / Heather Eaton -- Jewish women's service organizations / Dianne Ashton -- Abundant life for all: the Young Women's Christian Association / Janine M. Denomme -- Women and religion in the borderlands / Daisy L. Machado -- Turning off the taps: public policy in Canada / Lois M. Wilson -- The public leadership of women of faith: entrepreneurs, social alchemists, and bearers of religion in the world / Katharine R. Henderson -- pt. 12. Women-centered theology. Womanist theology / Emilie M. Townes -- Euro-American feminist theology / Lucy Tatman -- Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious / political activism / Lara Medina -- Mujerista theology / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Latina Roman Catholic theologies / Nancy Pineda-Madrid -- Rebirth of the religion of the goddess / Carol P. Christ -- Women's issues in contemporary North American Buddhism / Rita M. Gross -- Lesbian and bisexual Issues in religion / Mary E. Hunt -- Jewish feminism / Judith Plaskow -- The case for native liberation theology / Andrea Smith -- pt. 13. Contemporary women's issues in religion. Women-church / Mary E. Hunt -- New feminist ritual / Janet Walton -- Women and healing in North America / Susan M. Setta -- Women in Protestant church societies and bureaucracies / Susan M. Hartmann -- Plural religious identities and households / Rita DasGupta Sherma -- Women's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations / Mary C. Boys -- Canadian women's religious issues / Tracy J. Trothen -- Inclusive language / Susan Thistlewaite -- New religious right / Laura R. Olson -- Sexuality and the Black church / Kelly Brown Douglas -- Girlfriend theology: adolescent girls and faith communities / Dori Grinenko Baker
Summary A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women and religion -- North America -- Encyclopedias
Women -- Religious life -- North America -- Encyclopedias
Women -- North America -- Religious aspects -- Encyclopedias
Women -- Religious aspects -- Encyclopedias
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Women and religion
Women -- Religious aspects
Women -- Religious life
Godsdiensten.
Vrouwen.
North America
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Dictionaries.
Encyclopédies.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author Keller, Rosemary Skinner.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford.
Cantlon, Marie.
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