Feminism in the Study of Religion

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Darlene Juschka
A&C Black, 2001 M08 2 - 700 pages
Written by feminist scholars over a period of nearly thirty years, the selected readings are wide-ranging in content, offer a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural perspective, and reflect the work of scholars working within religious studies as well as other disciplines.The introductory essays link the sections and are packed with useful information on resources, issues, and the current debates. The book illustrates how debates about feminism within the study of religions have been impacted by broader theoretical discussions and provides evidence that feminist scholars working on religion have made their own contribution to feminist theory.
 

Contents

Gender Power and Miscommmunication
34
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
61
Family Structure and Feminine Personality
81
On In a Different Voice An Interdisciplinary Forum
106
The Notion of Difference for Emerging Womanist Ethics The Writings of Audre Lorde and bell hooks
134
Engendering Religious Studies
147
WOMEN IN AND DOING THE STUDY OF RELIGION
157
Introduction
159
DANGEROUS LIAISONS RACE GENDER SEXUALITY AND CLASS
425
Introduction
427
Race Gender and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought
434
Sapphic Shadows Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality
452
Africa on My Mind Gender Counter Discourse and AfricanAmerican Nationalism
474
Defining Our Proyecto Histórico Mujerista Strategies for Liberation
498
RePlacing Race in White Psychoanalytic Discourse Founding Narratives of Feminism
510
Womanist Interpretations of the New Testament The Quest for Holistic and Inclusive Translation and Interpretation
539

Gender and Power in New Religious Movements A Feminist Discourse on the Scientific Study of Religion
168
The Impact of the Islamic Movement in Egypt
180
Religion and Feminism A Consideration of Cultural Constraints on Sri Lankan Women
198
NonLiterary Evidence for Jewish Women in Rome and Egypt
221
Childbirth as a Religious Experience? Voices from an Israeli Hospital
239
In the Tracks of the MungaMunga
252
CRITICAL DISCOURSES FRAMING THE CHALLENGES IN FEMINIST THEORIES
283
Introduction
285
Beyond the Big Three The Development of Feminist Theory into the 1990s
292
Conceptualizing Patriarchy
314
Black Women Sexism and Racism Black or Antiracist Feminism?
334
Gender Ethnicity and Class in Kenya Burying Otieno Revisited
357
Roundtable Discussion Whats in a Name? Exploring the Dimensions of What Feminist Studies in Religion? Means
386
Rethinking Sex and Gender
411
WHATS THAT YOU SAID? FEMINIST RESPONSES TO THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
561
Introduction
563
Mircea Eliade and the Feminist Paradigm Shift
571
Feminists and Freudians
591
The Feminist Standpoint Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
603
Contingent Foundations Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism
629
Of Waters and Women The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray
648
The Feminist Production of Knowledge Is Deconstruction a Practice for Women?
658
FEMINISM POSTCOLONIALITY AND THE LIE OF THE LAND
671
Introduction
673
AllOwning Spectatorship
676
Index
695
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Darlene Juschka is Coordinator for Women's Studies, University of Regina, Canada.

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