| Description |
xviii, 292 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Julia : an east African diviner / Martha B. Binford -- Mother guru : Jnanananda of Madras, India / Charles S. J. White -- Possession sickness and women shamans in Korea / Youngsook Kim Harvey -- Ecstacy and possession : women of ancient Greece and the cult of Dionysus / Ross S. Kraemer -- Golden handprints and red-painted feet : Hindu childborth rituals in central India / Doranne Jacobson -- Hindu women's family and household rites in a north Indian village / Susan S. Wadley -- The ladies of lord Krishna : rituals of middle-aged women in eastern India / James M. Freeman -- Black Carib women and rites of death / Virginia Kerns -- The controversial vows of urban Muslim women in Iran / Anne H. Betteridge -- Islam and tribal women in a village in Iran / Erika Friedl -- No women's liberation : the heritage of a woman prophet in modern Japan / Kyoko Motomochi Nakamura -- Empress Wu and the historians : a tyrant and saint of classical China / Diana Paul -- The case of the vanishing nuns : the fruits of ambivalence in ancient Indian Buddhism / Nancy Auer Falk -- Accomplished women in Tantric Buddhism of medieval India and Tibet / Reginald A. Ray -- Women of influence and prestige among the Native American Iriquois / Annemarie Shimony -- Rosinta, rats, and the river : back luck is banished in Andean Bolivia / Joseph W. Bastien -- Menstruation and childbirth as ritual and religious experience among Native Australians / Rita M. Gross |
| Analysis |
Women - Religious life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Women -- Religious life.
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| Author |
Falk, Nancy Auer.
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Gross, Rita M.
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| LC no. |
79002989 |
| ISBN |
0060634928 |
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