Gendering the spirit : women, religion & the post-colonial response / edited by Durre S. Ahmed.
Contributor(s): Ahmed, Durre S
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002Description: xi, 244 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1842770276 (pbk.); 1842770268Subject(s): Women and religion | Women -- Religious life | PostcolonialismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL458 .G46 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902334172 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The last frontier / Durre S. Ahmed -- The goddess-woman equation in Śākta tantras / Madhu Khanna -- Women in the Catholic church / Mary John Mananzan -- Women, psychology and religion / Durre S. Ahmed -- The forgotten women of Anuradhapura: 'her story' replaced by 'history' / Hema Goonatilake -- 'Mother' Victoria Vera Piedad as a Mutya figure: a study of an archetypal image of the self / Grace P. Odal -- Suprema Isabel Suarez / Mary John Mananzan -- Parallel worlds of Madhobi Ma, 'Nectar Mother': my encounter with a twentieth-century Tantric saint / Madhu Khanna -- 'Real' men, naked women and the politics of paradise: the archetype of Lal Ded / Durre S. Ahmed -- Righteous violence and non-violence: an inseparable dyad of Hindu tradition / Madhu Khanna -- Theological reflections on violence against women (a Catholic perspective) / Mary John Mananzan -- Violence and the feminine in Islam: a case study of the Zikris / Durre S. Ahmed.