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Women in the World's Religions, Past and Present

Author : Ursula King
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014229630

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Women in the World's Religions, Past and Present by Ursula King Pdf

This major collection of essays makes a new contribution to the role and image of women in the different world religions. Many new perceptions are revealed in this provocative collection, including insights into women in African traditional religions, in evangelical Christianity, and in new religious movements, which focus on some of todays fundamental questions: Are women hindered or encouraged to give full expression to their religious experience? How far do the different religious traditions draw on feminine symbols in speaking about ultimate reality? To what extent do women take part in ritual and religious practices or hold positions of authority? What is the actual religious experience of women, and how do women choose to follow a religious life?

Women in World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Women in World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma,Birks Professor of Comparative Religion Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

Feminism and World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma,Katherine K. Young
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.

Today's Woman in World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Women and Spirituality

Author : Ursula King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349228447

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Women and Spirituality by Ursula King Pdf

Taking a critical look at feminism and exploring its explicit and implicit spiritual dimensions, this revised and updated new edition of Women and Spirituality engages in a reflective dialogue with contemporary women's voices. It asks to what extent patriarchal oppression and androcentric thinking are inherent not only in Christianity but in all religious beliefs, practices and institutions. This is the only book which provides a comprehensive survey of current discussions in feminist theology and spirituality and offers a wide-ranging account of women and world religions and raising thought-provoking questions about the spiritual dimensions of human life.

Women and World Religions

Author : Denise Lardner Carmody
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Encyclopedia of World Religions

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593394912

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Encyclopedia of World Religions by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. It includes features such as: entries on religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, religious sites and ceremonies; images that show sacred places, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts; and more.

Women and World Religions

Author : Lucinda J. Peach
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

Theory of Women in Religions

Author : Catherine Wessinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Discovering World Religions

Author : Gabriel J. Gomes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469710372

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Discovering World Religions by Gabriel J. Gomes Pdf

In Discovering World Religions, author Gabriel J. Gomes provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of world religions, including Native American, African traditional, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and more.

Religion and Women

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438419602

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Religion and Women by Arvind Sharma Pdf

This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha'i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework within which their positions could be comprehensively considered. The contributing scholars provide an enlarged database for a more thorough discussion of the questions pertaining to women and religion in general, and simultaneously advance the theoretical frontiers in women's studies. Religion and Women belongs to a trilogy about women and world religions edited by Arvind Sharma the first and third volumes being respectively, Women in World Religions and Today's Woman in World Religions.

Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Author : Peter Antes,Armin W. Geertz,Randi R. Warne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110211702

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Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches by Peter Antes,Armin W. Geertz,Randi R. Warne Pdf

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.

The Annual Review of Women in World Religions

Author : Arvind Sharma,Katherine K. Young
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791420310

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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions by Arvind Sharma,Katherine K. Young Pdf

Just as a mirror captures a large area within its small limit, this journal reflects the otherwise far-ranging and far-reaching phenomena that are categorized as "women and religion." The Annual Review of Women in World Religions has been conceived as a forum for the latest historical and anthropological research on women in all religions. It is also a form for discussion of contemporary trends, such as the influence of secularism, fundamentalism, or feminism on women and religion. Accordingly, it contributes to the on-going project to add to our basic knowledge about women, and helps evaluate the past as well as the present through insights generated by gender studies today. Within the boundaries of academic scholarship, the editors seek to include the research of those who are both inside and outside the traditions. Moreover, the book encourages women and men of all beliefs to participate in the on-going dialogue which it represents and promotes. This journal is polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional in its approach to the study of women and religion. It not only allows the comparative dimension to appear in bolder relief, but also helps to establish a dialogue between the two solitudes of humanistic and social scientific studies in the field. Volume III contains the following essays: Rabi'ah as Mystic, Muslim and Woman by Barbara Lois Helms; Slighted Grandmothers: The Need for Increased Study of Female Spirits and Spirituality in Native American Religions by Jordan Paper; Women of Medieval South India in Hindu Temple Ritual: Text and Practice by Leslie C. Orr; and Confucianism and Women in Modern Korea: Continuity, Change and Conflict by Edward Y. J. Chung.

Women's Religious Experience (RLE Women and Religion)

Author : Pat Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317590255

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Women's Religious Experience (RLE Women and Religion) by Pat Holden Pdf

Most of the early literature concerning women’s religious experience is about exceptional women; those who diverged from the traditional female role to become nuns, mystics or charismatic leaders. While women were permitted to be prophets and visionaries they rarely played an important part in church organisation. This paradox is explored in this book and a number of themes emerge: in particular, the dominance of male symbolism within the great religions. The question of whether men and women apprehend religious systems and signs in the same way is also explored. In considering the contemporary scene, the book is able to look at the ways in which religion affects the lives of women in different societies and in different historical periods; this gives us a larger view of the ways in which our own perceptions of ‘femaleness’ have been constructed out of the religious world views of both the past and the present. First Published in 1983.