| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) |
| Contents |
General introduction: Gender-critical turns in the study of religion / Ursula King -- pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives. Introduction to part I / Tina Beattie -- Where have we been? Where do we need to go? Women's studies and gender in religion and feminist theology / Rita M. Gross -- Postcolonial and gendered reflections: challenges for religious studies / Morny Joy -- Rethinking subjectivity in the gender-oriented study of religions: Kristeva and the 'subject-in-process' / Sîan Hawthorne -- On understanding that the struggle for truth is moral and spiritual / Harriet A. Harris -- Religious identity and the ethics of representation: the study of religion and gender in the secular academy / Tina Beattie -- Raced and gendered perspectives: towards the epidermalization of subjectivity in religious studies theory / Mary Keller -- pt. 2. Historical and textual perspectives. Introduction to part II / Tina Beattie -- From women's history to feminist theology: gender, witness, and canonicity in the religious narration of the Holocaust / Melissa Raphael -- Rethinking religion in gender history: historiographical and methodological reflections / Sue Morgan -- The gendering of missionary imperialism: the search for an integrated methodology / Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani -- Gender archaeology and paleochristianity / Diane Treacy-Cole -- 'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus': on the relationship between religion, gender, and space / Jorunn Økland -- Biblical gender strategies: the case of Abraham's masculinity / Deborah F. Sawyer -- pt. 3. Cultural and contextual perspectives. Introduction to part III / Tina Beattie -- Who are the Muslims? Questions of identity, gender, and culture in research methodologies / Anne Sofie Roald -- Reflexive transformations: research comments on me(n), feminist philosophy, and the thealogical imagination / Paul Reid-Bowen -- Why difference matters: lesbian and gay perspectives on religion and gender / Sean Gill -- Indian Dalit women and the Bible: hermeneutical and methodological reflections / Monica Melanchthon -- Race, gender, class, and the theology of empowerment: an Indian perspective / Mukti Barton -- An Asian postcolonial and feminist methodology: ethics as a recognition of limits / Sharon A. Bong -- Whose face in the mirror? Personal and postcolonial obstacles in researching Africa's contemporary women's theological voices / Carrie Pemberton |
| Summary |
Gender, Religion and Diversity provides an introduction to some of the most challenging perspectives in the contemporary study of gender and religion. In recent years, women's and gender studies have transformed the international study of religion through the use of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural methodologies, which have opened up new and highly controversial issues, challenging previous paradigms and creating fresh fields of study. As this book shows, gender studies in religion raises new and difficult questions about the gendered nature of religious phenomena, the relationship between |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Women and religion.
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Religion -- Cross-cultural studies
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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Religion
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Women and religion
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Religion
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Frau
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Sekseverschillen.
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Godsdienst.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
King, Ursula.
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Beattie, Tina, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9780826423306 |
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0826423302 |
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1281784192 |
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9781281784193 |
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9786611784195 |
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6611784195 |
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