Gender And Religious Leadership

Author : Hartmut Bomhoff,Denise L. Eger,Kathy Ehrensperger,Walter Homolka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793601582

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Gender and Religious Leadership by Hartmut Bomhoff,Denise L. Eger,Kathy Ehrensperger,Walter Homolka Pdf

This volume analyzes historical and recent developments in female religious leadership and the larger issues shaping the scholarly debate at the intersection of gender and religious studies. Jewish activism and scholarship have been crucial in linking theology and gender issues since the early twentieth century. Academic and vocational leadership and training have had significant, concrete impact on religious communal practices and formation across the US and Europe. At the same time, these models provide important avenues of constructive dialogue and comparative ecumenical and interfaith enterprises. This volume investigates those possibilities towards constructive, activist, holistic female ministerial leadership for religious faith communities.

Author : Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen,Christian Giudice
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319615271

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Female Leaders in New Religious Movements by Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen,Christian Giudice Pdf

In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women’s religious leadership. New Religious Movements have been supportive of women taking roles of leadership for a long time. Authors of this book examine issues of gender and female leadership from diverse theoretical and methodological standpoints. The book covers a broad range of groups both with regard to time and place, covering Paganism, Hindu guru groups, Christian organizations, esoteric/ mystical movements, African churches, and a Japanese NRM. The common focal point is the powerful, prophetic, charismatic women who have founded and/ or led New Religious Movements.

Author : Kuruvilla, Moly,George, Irene
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799828211

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Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment by Kuruvilla, Moly,George, Irene Pdf

Globally, women are facing social, economic, and cultural barriers impeding their autonomy and agency. Accelerated women empowerment programs often fail to attain their targets as envisaged by the policymakers due to a variety of reasons, with the most prominent being the deep-rooted cultural norms ingrained within society. In the era of globalization, empowerment of women demands new approaches and strategies that encourage the mainstreaming of gender equality as a societal norm. The Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment is a critical scholarly publication that examines global gender issues and new strategies for the promotion of women empowerment and gender mainstreaming in various spheres of women’s lives, including education and ICT, economic participation, health and sexuality, mental health, aging, law and judiciary, leadership, and decision making. It provides a comprehensive coverage of all major gender issues with novel ideas on gender mainstreaming being contributed by men and women authors from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Gender perspective and intersectional approach in the discourses make this handbook a unique contribution to the scholarship of social sciences and humanities. The book provides new theoretical inputs and practical directions to academicians, sociologists, social workers, psychologists, managers, lawyers, policy makers, and government officials in their efforts at gender mainstreaming. With a wide range of conceptual richness, this handbook is an excellent reference guide to students and researchers in programs pertaining to gender/women's studies, cultural studies, economics, sociology, social work, medicine, law, and management.

Author : Meryl James-Sebro, Ph.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781449797324

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Genderstanding Leadership by Meryl James-Sebro, Ph.D. Pdf

Genderstanding Leadership: Power to the Pew! questions the gender gap between Christian ideology and practice. It challenges women to move beyond the Pew to retrieve and preserve the dignity of women and the security of women and children that are Divinely intended. The book makes a troubling link between religion and gender-based violence, warns that the way in which women allow themselves to be treated in the Church (based on stubborn misinterpretations of sacred texts) has a direct outcome on the plight of women in the world. The author spurs Christian women to spirit-filled, strategic action for greater and more purposeful gender equality in religious institutions.

Author : Maureen Fiedler
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596271333

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Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling by Maureen Fiedler Pdf

This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.

Author : Haruko Nawata Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351871815

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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 by Haruko Nawata Ward Pdf

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid-seventeenth century, this book outlines how women provided crucial leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through various apostolic ministries. The author's research on the religious backgrounds of women from different schools of late medieval Japanese Shinto-Buddhism sheds light on individual women's choices to embrace or reject the Reformed Catholicism of the Jesuits, and explores the continuity and discontinuity of their religious expressions. The book is divided into four sections devoted to an in-depth study of different types of apostolates: nuns (women who took up monastic vocations), witches (the women leaders of the Shinto-Buddhist tradition who resisted Jesuit teachings), catechists (women who engaged in ministries of persuasion and conversion), and sisters (women devoted to missions of mercy). Analyzing primary sources including Jesuit histories, letters and reports, especially Luís Fróis' História de Japão, hagiography and family chronicles, each section provides a broad understanding of how these women, in the context of misogynistic society and theology, utilized resources from their traditional religions to new Christian adaptations and specific religio-social issues, creating unique hybrids of Catholicism and Buddhism. The inclusion of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese texts, many available for the first time in English, and the dramatic conclusion that women were largely responsible for the trajectory of Christianity in early modern Japan, makes this book an essential reading for scholars of women's history, religious history, history of Christianity, and Asian history.

Author : Masooda Bano,Hilary Kalmbach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004211469

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Women, Leadership, and Mosques by Masooda Bano,Hilary Kalmbach Pdf

This volume is the first to bring together analysis of contemporary female religious leadership in ideologically-diverse Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing the emergence, consolidation, and impact of female Islamic authority.

Author : Barbara Denison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315468471

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Women, Religion and Leadership by Barbara Denison Pdf

Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leadership from specifically chosen religious female leaders and going on to examine the legacies they leave behind. This book seeks to identify and analyse the gendered issues underlying the structural lack of recognition for women within the church and to examine the culturally constructed narratives related to these women for evidence of their leadership despite the exclusionary rules applied to force their submission to the dominating forces. Finally this book intends to draw out of these women’s stories the various lessons of leadership that invoke current relevancies among prevailing leadership paradigms. Written by experts from disciplines as varied as leadership and communication studies to sociology, and history to medievalist and English scholars; Women, Religion and Leadership will prove key reading for scholars, academics and researchers is these and related disciplines.

Author : Catherine Wessinger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0252020251

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Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions by Catherine Wessinger Pdf

Women's leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science / Ann Braude -- The feminism of "Universal Brotherhood," women in the Theosophical Movement / Robert Ellwood and Catherine Wessinger -- Emma Curtis Hopkins, a feminist of the 1880's and mother of new thought / J. Gordon Melton -- Myrtle Fillmore and her daughters, an observation and analysis of the role of women in Unity / Dell deChant -- Woman guru, woman roshi, the legitimation of female religious leadership in Hindu and Buddhist groups in America / Catherine Wessinger. -- Part 3. Contemporary women as creators of religion: Ritual validations of clergywomen's authority in the African American Spiritual churches of New Orleans / David C. Estes --. - Twentieth-century women's religion as seen in the feminist spirit.

Author : Jan Wim Buisman,Marjet Derks,Peter Raedts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004303126

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Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender by Jan Wim Buisman,Marjet Derks,Peter Raedts Pdf

Both men and women have claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. This volume analyses the basis of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from their followers.

Author : Sanders, Annmarie, IHM
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336036

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Transformational Leadership by Sanders, Annmarie, IHM Pdf

Author : Halee Gray Scott
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310514459

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Dare Mighty Things by Halee Gray Scott Pdf

The main challenges and strategies of success for CHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERS Are you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential? At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and help others do the same. For the last seven years, Halee has been studying the lives of female Christian leaders to determine what keeps them from fully flourishing as people of influence. It’s not that Christian women cannot or do not want to lead; it’s that their way is fraught with roadblocks. In Dare Mighty Things, Halee unpacks the results of her research, tackling the top challenges for Christian women, including: What prevents us from seeing ourselves as leaders How to discern what we are really, truly meant to do How to navigate between our roles as women and leaders How the myth that only “exceptional” Christian women can lead hurts all Christian women Dare Mighty Things is a guidebook for women navigating the difficult waters of leadership. Packed with helpful advice and strategies for success, it will challenge you to claim your God-given potential and lead with confidence, poise, and grace.

Author : Laura Vance
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479847990

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Women in New Religions by Laura Vance Pdf

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.

Author : Joan E. Taylor,Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192636904

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Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity by Joan E. Taylor,Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Pdf

This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one method, based on one type of feminist theory, but overall there is nevertheless a feminist or egalitarian agenda in considering the full equality of women with men in religious spheres a positive goal, with the assumption that this full equality has yet to be attained. The chapters revisit both older studies and offers new and unpublished research, exploring the many ways in which ancient Christian women's leadership could function.

Author : Sarah Sumner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830876334

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Men and Women in the Church by Sarah Sumner Pdf

Evangelicals stand divided in their view of women in the church. On one side stand complementarians, arguing the full worth of women but assigning them to differing roles. On the other side stand egalitarians, arguing that the full worth of women demands their equal treatment and access to leadership roles. Is there a way to mend the breach and build consensus? Sarah Sumner thinks there is. Avoiding the pitfalls of both radical feminism and reactionary conservatism, she traces a new path through the issues--biblical, theological, psychological and practical--to establish and affirm common ground. Arguing that men and women are both equal and distinct, Sumner encourages us to find ways to honor and benefit from the leadership gifts of both. Men and Women in the Church is a book for all who want a fresh and hope-filled look at a persistent problem.