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Theory of Women in Religions

Author : Catherine Wessinger
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479809462
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Women in Religions written by Catherine Wessinger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women are not ordained as priests. In areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Taliban occupation girls and women students and their teachers risk their lives to go to school. And in Sri Lanka, fully ordained Buddhist nuns are denied the government identity cards that recognize them as citizens. Is it possible to create families, societies, and religions in which women and men are equal? And if so, what are the factors that promote equality? Theory of Women in Religions offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day. Catherine Wessinger integrates data and theories from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, gender studies, and psychology into a concise history of religions introduction to the complex relationships between gender and religion. She argues that socio-economic factors that support specific gender roles, in conjunction with religious norms and ideals, have created a gendered division of labor that both directly and indirectly reinforces gender inequality. Yet she also highlights how as the socio-economic situation is changing religion is being utilized to support the transition toward women’s equality, noting the ways in which many religious representations of gender change over time.

Women Religion Revolution

Author : Gina Messina
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457546396
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Women Religion Revolution written by Gina Messina and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where women’s issues are political issues, feminism and religion are often scripted as opposing sides. But, drawing on the messages of love and social justice from within their religious traditions, women are leading feminist movements that promote positive social change at both the micro and macro levels. Religion is fueling women’s efforts to revolutionize the world! Women Religion Revolution is a provocative collection of essays written by women who understand that being passive is not an option. Each story resonates with passion drawn from the well of faith, along with a drive to forge a connection with other women. The experiences that can shape a woman’s soul are often negative and isolating—sexual assault, domestic violence, eating disorders, addictions—but in seeking healing, in seeking to effect revolutionary change, women often find that the path leads toward other women, toward a connectedness that strengthens us all. This is a very stimulating book. This volume brings together nineteen interesting articles from women from a variety of religious and social traditions. A good book to read and to own as a resource in women's experience of feminism and religion. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Professor of Theology, Claremont Graduate University This is feminist religious thought at its most courageous and creative. The narratives by these authors offer inspiring, revolutionary, spiritual insights about women’s lives, bodies, and violence. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University Theological School The women in this volume are bold in uncovering persistent problems and rethinking new possibilities for thought and action. Their essays are personal, based on the authors’ own experiences as Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Mormons; but they articulate their insights in ways that reverberate in many different contexts. These essays touch on all areas of concern for women: reproduction, sexuality, body image, violence and abuse, poverty and wealth, spiritual power and women’s ordination, the sacred and the Divine. These essays will inspire you. Margaret Toscano, Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, University of Utah

Women in New Religions

Author : Laura Vance
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479847992
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Women in New Religions written by Laura Vance and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity.

Women and Religion

Author : Ruspini, Elisabetta
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447336402
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Ruspini, Elisabetta and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women’s changes to religion in different parts of the world and among different religious traditions and practices. The contributors address a diverse range of themes and issues including the attitudes of different religions to gender equality; how women construct their identity through religious activity; whether women have opportunity to influence religious doctrine; and the impact of migration on the religious lives of both women and men.

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253346872
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories written by Rosemary Skinner Keller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Women v. Religion

Author : Karen L. Garst
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 163431171X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Women v. Religion written by Karen L. Garst and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, religion has been used as a tool of female subjugation. Women have been deemed less worthy than men, have been prevented from owning property, and worse—all in the name of a higher power. In recent decades, women have made progress in terms of equal rights with men, at least in Western democracies, but still, why has the United States never had a female president? Why aren't more women heads of Fortune 500 companies? Why do politicians in the West continue to attack women's reproductive rights? As this volume explores, it would be hard to find a bigger culprit than religion when identifying the last cultural barriers to full gender equality. With topics ranging from the subjugation of women in the Bible to the shame and guilt felt by women due to religious teaching, this volume makes clear that only by rejecting the very system that limits their autonomy will women be fully liberated from its malignant influences, not just in codified law but also in cultural practice.

Women and Religion in the African Diaspora

Author : R. Marie Griffith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883699
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion in the African Diaspora written by R. Marie Griffith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Women and Religion

Author : Marianne Ferguson
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780023370014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Marianne Ferguson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a balanced presentation of the global religious contributions of women. The book covers the religious experience of women from primal societies to modern day. Includes religious writings and practices from Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, Traditional African, Native American, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities.

Women and Religion

Author : Susan M. Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Susan M. Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers students a broad examination of the impact of religion on the lives of women around the world, focusing on differences among women, indigenous religions, the impact of religion in colonization, and resistance to religious oppression. Sexism, pervasive in religion, limits access to high leadership positions; dictates gender-related religious practices and roles; portrays women in limited ways in sacred texts; excludes or condemns them if they are lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; and makes them subject to violence by people of other faiths as well as their own. This volume is organized into eight chapters, each focusing on a different region of the world—North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Chapters cover women's status and experiences in the religions of each region, including indigenous religions and such major world religions as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Additionally, they cover issues of religion for women, such as women in religious leadership, women in sacred texts, LGBTQ issues in religion, the intersections of religion and politics for women, the legacy of Christian missionaries on the colonial project, religious violence against women, and women's resistance to religious oppression.

Women and Religion in the West

Author : Dr Giselle Vincett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409477916
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion in the West written by Dr Giselle Vincett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? Women and Religion in the West addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization, the book moves its focus to in-depth examination of women's experiences based on data from key recent qualitative work on women and religion. This volume addresses not only women's place in and out of Christianity (the normal focus of secularization theories) but also alternative spiritualities and Islam, asking how questions of secularization differ between faith systems. This book offers students and scholars of religion, sociology, and women's studies, as well as interested general readers, an accessible work on the religiosity of western women and contributes fresh analyses of the rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary religion and spirituality.

Women and Indigenous Religions

Author : Sylvia Marcos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313082731
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Women and Indigenous Religions written by Sylvia Marcos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. From the Dalit midwives in India to the women of the Nahua region in the state of Morelos, Mexico, from the indigenous nations in Turtle Island in Canada to the shamans (male and female) of South Korea and Vietnam, there are still many vital indigenous cultures around the world in which women often hold positions of religious authority and leadership. Women and Indigenous Religions addresses specific issues in the study of religion, such as the multifaceted tensions between indigenous traditions and gender and the genealogy of positions of authority in religion or spiritual matters. A close examination reveals that native religions, with their women specialists, are still a source of inspiration for millions of men and women even in the "advanced" areas in the world. This fact challenges the opinion that indigenous cultures are becoming extinct.

Women, Gender, Religion

Author : E. Castelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137048301
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender, Religion written by E. Castelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. Designed for the classroom, the Reader simultaneously assesses the state of the field and raises questions for further inquiry and investigation.

Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134841795
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women and Religion

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060614099
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Elizabeth A. Clark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-11-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... a difinitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership ... This new edition ... includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis ..."--Back cover

The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World

Author : Pew Research Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997419009
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World written by Pew Research Center and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why men and women differ in religious commitment has been a topic of scholarly debatefor decades. Even today, it continues to inspire much academic research, as well as discussionsamong the general public. To contribute to this ongoing conversation, Pew Research Center hasamassed extensive data on gender and religion in six different faith groups (Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated) across scores of countries, includingmany with non-Christian majorities. Data on affiliation in 192 countries were collected fromcensuses, demographic surveys and general population surveys as part of the Center's multi-yearstudy projecting the size and geographic distribution of the world's major religious groups from2010 to 2050. Data on religious beliefs and practices come from international Pew ResearchCenter surveys of the general population in 84 countries conducted between 2008 and 2015.

Women in Religion

Author : Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women in Religion written by Mary Pat Fisher and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using extracts, original interviews, and biographies of women past and present, this accessible book makes women's religious experiences and actions come to life in all their richness and variety.

Women in Religion

Author : Jean Holm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441120599
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Women in Religion written by Jean Holm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to their general role in society; and the significance of cultural influences for attitudes to women within the religious traditions.Addressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approaches a particular theme. Constructed to be comparative, the books are both authoritative and accessible. Each chapter is followed by a selected bibliography. This book is ideal for undergraduate students.