| Description |
xv, 550 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Elizabeth A.Castelli Part I: Categories of Analysis and Critique: "Gender," "Religion," "Feminism" What's in a Name? Exploring Dimensions of What "Feminist Studies in Religion" Means Miriam Peskowitz Weaving the Fabric of our Lives--Carol P.Christ Unweaving: A Response to Carol Christ--Miriam Peskowitz A Further Response--Carol P. Christ "Gender" for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word--Donna Haraway The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yor?b Language, Orature, and World-Sense Snakes Alive: Resituating the Moral in the Study of Religion--Robert A. Orsi Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism--Minoo Moallem Part II: Origins, Identities, and Appropriations Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character--Mieke Bal A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern--Helen P. Foley On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism--Laura E. Donaldson Part III: Gender and Religious Experience: Interdisciplinary Approaches Margery Kempe Answers Back--Carolyn Dinshaw Sexology and the Occult: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Theosophy's New Age--Joy Dixon Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson--Bassard The Woman Who Wanted to Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community--Yoram Bilu The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia--Aihwa Ong Part IV: Gender, Religion, and Body Politics From a "Pot of Filth" to a "Hedge of Roses" (and Back): Changing Theorizations of Menstruation in Judaism--Jonah Steinberg Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels--Mary Rose D'Angelo The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women--Homa Hoodfar Women Who Walk on Water: Working across "Race" in Women Against Fundamentalism--Clara Connolly & Pragna Patel Agency, Activism, and Agendas--Patricia Jeffrey Tender Warriors--Linda Kintz Getting Religion--Janet R. Jakobsen & Ann Pellegrini Part V: Gender and Religion in the Politics of the Academy The Academy as Real Life: New Participants & Paradigms in the Study of Religion--Judith Plaskow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Women and religion.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects.
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| Author |
Castelli, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1958-
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Rodman, Rosamond C.
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| LC no. |
2001021830 |
| ISBN |
0312240309 paperback |
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031224004X |
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