Gender Genre And Religion

Author : Morny Joy,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889207509

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Gender, Genre and Religion by Morny Joy,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay Pdf

Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception. Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to “plot the path forward.” This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles. Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors. The sensitive and original essays in Gender, Genre and Religion will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

Author : Joanna de Groot,Sue Morgan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118833940

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Sex, Gender and the Sacred by Joanna de Groot,Sue Morgan Pdf

Sex, Gender and the Sacred presents a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that explore the interlocking narratives of religion and gender encompassing 4,000 years of history. Contains readings relating to sex and religion that encompass 4,000 years of gender history Features new research in religion and gender across diverse cultures, periods, and religious traditions Presents multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives with significant comparative potential Offers original theories and concepts relating to gender, religion, and sexuality Includes innovative interpretations of the connections between visual, verbal, and material aspects of particular religious traditions

Author : E. Castelli,R. Rodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137048301

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Women, Gender, Religion by E. Castelli,R. Rodman Pdf

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.

Author : L. E. Sjrup,Hilda Rømer Christensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004178267

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Pieties and Gender by L. E. Sjrup,Hilda Rømer Christensen Pdf

Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics, pieties and methodologies, virtuous masculinities, and symbolic gender representations. Several articles discuss highly controversial questions: Muslim piety, religion in the European Union between the Vatican and the Muslim populations, the religiously motivated abstinence policies of the US. Furthermore, there is an interesting section about religious masculinities in a historical and contemporary perspective.

Author : Ursula King
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0631193766

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Religion and Gender by Ursula King Pdf

Author : Ursula King,Tina Beattie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826488459

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Gender, Religion and Diversity by Ursula King,Tina Beattie Pdf

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 power and knowledge, the authority of religious texts and institutions, and the involvement and responsibility of the researcher undertaking such studies as a gendered subject. This book is the outcome of an international collaboration between a wide range of researchers from different countries and fields of religious studies. The range and diversity of their contributions is the very strength of this book, for it shows how gendering works in studying different religious materials, whether foundational texts from the Bible or Koran, philosophical ideas about truth, essentialism, history or symbolism, the impact of French feminist thinkers such as Irigaray or Kristeva, or again critical perspectives dealing with the impact of race, gender, and class on religion, or by deconstructing religious data from a postcolonial critical standpoint or examining the impact of imperialism and orientalism on religion and gender.

Author : Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351903349

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Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion by Pamela Sue Anderson Pdf

A passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited and prohibited women from thinking and writing their own ideas, this book lays fresh ground for re-visioning the epistemic practices of philosophers. Pamela Sue Anderson seeks both to draw out the salient threads in the gendering of philosophy of religion as it has been practiced and to re-vision gender for philosophy today. The arguments put forth by contemporary philosophers of religion concerning human and divine attributes are epistemically located; yet the motivation to recognize this locatedness has to come from a concern for justice. This book presents invaluable new perspectives on the philosopher’s ever-increasing awareness of his or her own locatedness, on the gender (often unwittingly) given to God, the ineffability in both analytic and Continental philosophy, the still critical role of reason in the field, the aims of a feminist philosophy of religion, the roles of beauty and justice, the vision of love and reason, and a gendering which opens philosophy of religion up to diversity.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780773577633

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Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama by Diana Dimitrova Pdf

Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. Her focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and whether the seven representative dramatists discussed in this book present conservative or liberating Hindu images of the feminine. She examines how the intersections of gender, religion, and ideology account for the creation of the canon of modern Hindi drama, specifically the assertion of a conservative interpretation of orthodox Hindu images of the feminine as well as the exclusion of dramatists who introduce innovative liberating images of the feminine. The overt reason for the negative attitude toward this innovative representation of gender is that it is perceived as "Western" and thus "non-Indian." By contrast, the author's analysis of Hindu mythology, religion, and theatre history reveals that the new interpretation of gender is deeply embedded in Hindu tradition and is thus both Hindu Indian and modernist Western in character.

Author : Rohan Amanda Maitzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136526510

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Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing by Rohan Amanda Maitzen Pdf

First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of Walter Scott's novels, and the development of social history are shown to have been key factors in an uneven, controversial, but persistent feminization of history, the first because of the longstanding association of novels with women the second because social history focuses on the private sphere, traditionally women's domain. Along with the appearance of numerous historical texts written by women and taking women as their subjects, these developments challenged conventional beliefs about historical authority and relevance that had long relegated women to the margins, both literally and metaphorically. In its exploration of these changes and their implications, Gender and Victorian Historical Writing revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.

Author : Arjun Appadurai,Frank J. Korom,Margaret A. Mills
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512821321

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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions by Arjun Appadurai,Frank J. Korom,Margaret A. Mills Pdf

The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.

Author : Linda Martín Alcoff,John D. Caputo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253223043

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Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion by Linda Martín Alcoff,John D. Caputo Pdf

Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking occurs. In Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion, internationally recognized scholars tackle complicated questions provoked by the often stormy intersection of these powerful forces. The essays in this book break down barriers as they extend the richness of each philosophical tradition. They discuss topics such as queer sexuality and religion, feminism and the gift, feminism and religious reform, and religion and diversity. The contributors are Hélène Cixous, Sarah Coakley, Kelly Brown Douglas, Mark D. Jordan, Catherine Keller, Saba Mahmood, and Gianni Vattimo.

Author : Pyong Gap Min,Jung Ha Kim
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461647621

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Religions in Asian America by Pyong Gap Min,Jung Ha Kim Pdf

The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the study of American religion not only because there are more than ten million Asian Americans. Asian American religions differ substantially from models drawn from European religions, pushing for new wider understandings. Religions in Asian America provides a comprehensive overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. How these new communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation make up the common themes that reach across essays about the varying communities. The first sociological overview of Asian American religions, Religions in Asian America is necessary reading for those interested in Asians, ethnicity, immigration or religion in the United States.

Author : Philip Cox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 071904264X

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Gender, Genre, and the Romantic Poets by Philip Cox Pdf

This book offers new insights into the ambiguous masculinity within male romantic poetry, discussing the work of Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge, among others.

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0801483441

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Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Pdf

In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively.

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004093421

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Feminism and Religion by Rita M. Gross Pdf

Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself. "This book will be an important resource for all ongoing work in feminist teaching and research in religion."-Rosemary Radford Ruether