Women And World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438419688

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Women in World Religions by Arvind Sharma Pdf

This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in the major religious traditions of humanity: Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, and tribal religions. A special feature of the book is its phenomenological approach, wherein scholars examine sacred textual materials. Each contributor not only studies her religion from within, but also studies it from her own feminine perspective. Each is an adept historian of religions, who grounds her analysis in publicly verifiable facts. The book strikes a delicate balance between hard fact and delicate perception, the best tradition of phenomenology and the history of religions. It also demonstrates how much religions may vary over time. Contributors are Katherine K. Young, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McGill University; Nancy Schuster Barnes, whose Ph.D. is in Sanskrit and Indian Studies; M. Theresa Kelleher, Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Manhattanville College; Barbara Reed, Assistant Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College; Denise L. Carmody, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, The University of Tulsa. Also Jane I. Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School; Rosemary Radford Ruether, Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Rita M. Gross, Associate Professor of Comparative Religions at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair.

Author : Lucinda J. Peach
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030281423

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Women and World Religions by Lucinda J. Peach Pdf

This book features a number of different articles and essays that focus on women as active agents of their spiritual lives--a topic that is often overlooked in most other world religion books. It explores how women from many parts of the world have thought about, acted, and have been treated as members of a religious tradition. Investigates how women of a variety of religious traditions (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, etc.) practice their religion, how their beliefs differ from men, and how they have carved out their own place within their religious tradition. For anyone interested in how women are shaped by and how they shape the various world religions.

Author : Denise Lardner Carmody
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001505164

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Women and World Religions by Denise Lardner Carmody Pdf

An exploration of the impact that religious experience, symbols, doctrines, and rituals have had on women worldwide -- from Buddhism to Catholicism.

Author : Arvind Sharma,Birks Professor of Comparative Religion Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887063748

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Women in World Religions by Arvind Sharma,Birks Professor of Comparative Religion Arvind Sharma Pdf

This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in the major religious traditions of humanity: Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, and tribal religions. A special feature of the book is its phenomenological approach, wherein scholars examine sacred textual materials. Each contributor not only studies her religion from within, but also studies it from her own feminine perspective. Each is an adept historian of religions, who grounds her analysis in publicly verifiable facts. The book strikes a delicate balance between hard fact and delicate perception, the best tradition of phenomenology and the history of religions. It also demonstrates how much religions may vary over time. Contributors are Katherine K. Young, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McGill University; Nancy Schuster Barnes, whose Ph.D. is in Sanskrit and Indian Studies; M. Theresa Kelleher, Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Manhattanville College; Barbara Reed, Assistant Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College; Denise L. Carmody, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, The University of Tulsa. Also Jane I. Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School; Rosemary Radford Ruether, Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Rita M. Gross, Associate Professor of Comparative Religions at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair.

Author : Arvind Sharma,Katherine K. Young
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440230

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Feminism and World Religions by Arvind Sharma,Katherine K. Young Pdf

Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist perspective by leading women scholars. The fact that these authors share a dual but undivided commitment both to themselves as women and to their traditions as adherents imparts to their voices a prophetic quality, and if Mahatma Gandhi is to be believed, even scriptural value.

Author : Katherine Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429979651

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Her Voice, Her Faith by Katherine Young Pdf

They say religion is a personal and private affair. But when a woman believes in a tradition, she has a relationship to that faith beyond her sacred space. Religious traditions' historically poor treatment of women has lead many to question why they believe. How has their tradition either embraced and enlightened, or excluded and confined women throughout history? Her Voice, Her Faith presents the personal and historical perspectives of women who not only live their faith day to day, but who also know their religion's history with women in general.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791416887

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Today's Woman in World Religions by Arvind Sharma Pdf

This book examines how the women’s movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.

Author : Catherine Wessinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479809462

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Theory of Women in Religions by Catherine Wessinger Pdf

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.

Author : Ruspini, Elisabetta,Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447336365

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Women and religion by Ruspini, Elisabetta,Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe Pdf

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.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791416879

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Today's Woman in World Religions by Arvind Sharma Pdf

This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.

Author : John C. Raines,Daniel C. Maguire
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791447855

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What Men Owe to Women by John C. Raines,Daniel C. Maguire Pdf

Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.

Author : Jean Holm,John Bowker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441120595

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Women in Religion by Jean Holm,John Bowker Pdf

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.

Author : Robert S. Ellwood,Barbara A. McGraw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315507552

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Many Peoples, Many Faiths by Robert S. Ellwood,Barbara A. McGraw Pdf

For more than three decades this introduction to the world's religions, Many Peoples, Many Faiths has combined factual information with empathic writing that seeks to convey the flavor of our planet's diverse religions and cultures. This classic work helps students gain a sense of each religion's unique characteristics while tackling some of today's most critical religious issues. It is written in an engaging style and has been fully updated--with fresh insights and information on each of the world’s major religions, along with new religious movements.

Author : Victoria Kennick Urubshurow
Publisher : JBE Online Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780980163308

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Introducing World Religions by Victoria Kennick Urubshurow Pdf

Author : Loreen Maseno,Elia Shabani Mligo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532697579

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Women within Religions by Loreen Maseno,Elia Shabani Mligo Pdf

Women are the majority in almost every cultural or social group. However, their roles vary in various cultures, religions, and traditions. In some cultures and religions, they are highly honored, while in others they are neglected, oppressed, and segregated. This book examines women’s role in a few selected world religions, namely Christianity, Islam, African Traditional Religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism. It also surveys the concept of patriarchy and the various theoretical perspectives surrounding it. Eventually, this book discusses the concept of ecofeminism and how feminists perceive of the relationship between nature and the oppression of women. The book grapples with the question, “In what way do world religions perceive of women and their role in their teachings and traditions?” This book is important for students and teachers of gender studies, African theology, and Christian theology as a whole.