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Women, gender, religion : a reader / edited by Elizabeth A. Castelli with the assistance of Rosamond C. Rodman.

Contributor(s): Castelli, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1958- | Rodman, Rosamond C
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 550 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0312240309 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780312240301 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women and religion | Feminism -- Religious aspects | Sex role -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 200/.82 LOC classification: BL458 | .W5767 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Women, gender, religion : troubling categories and transforming knowledge / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- What's in a name? Exploring the dimensions of what 'feminist studies in religion' means / Miriam Peskowitz -- Weaving the fabric of our lives / Carol P. Christ -- Unweaving : a response to Carol P. Christ / Miriam Peskowitz -- Reweaving / Carol P. Christ -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary : the sexual politics of a word / Donna J. Haraway -- The translation of cultures : engedering Yorùbá language, orature, and world-sense / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Snakes alive : resituating the moral in the study of religion / Robert A. Orsi -- Transnationalism, feminism, and fundamentalism / Minoo Moallem -- Sexuality, sin, and sorrow : the emergence of the female character / Mieke Bal -- Sacrifice as remedy for having been born of woman / Nancy Jay -- 'Shahbano' / Zakia Pathak and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- A question of origins : goddess cults Greek and modern / Helene P. Foley -- On medicine women and white shame-ans : new age Native Americanism and commodity fetishism as pop culture feminism / Laura E. Donaldson -- 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 / Katherine Clay 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 -- 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 : women's heads in early Christianity / 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 and Pragna Patel -- Agency, activism, and agendas / Patricia Jeffery -- Tender warriors / Linda Kintz -- Getting religion / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- The academy as real life : new participants and paradigms in the study of religion / Judith Plaskow.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL458 .W5767 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902184957

Includes bibliographical references.

Women, gender, religion : troubling categories and transforming knowledge / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- What's in a name? Exploring the dimensions of what 'feminist studies in religion' means / Miriam Peskowitz -- Weaving the fabric of our lives / Carol P. Christ -- Unweaving : a response to Carol P. Christ / Miriam Peskowitz -- Reweaving / Carol P. Christ -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary : the sexual politics of a word / Donna J. Haraway -- The translation of cultures : engedering Yorùbá language, orature, and world-sense / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Snakes alive : resituating the moral in the study of religion / Robert A. Orsi -- Transnationalism, feminism, and fundamentalism / Minoo Moallem -- Sexuality, sin, and sorrow : the emergence of the female character / Mieke Bal -- Sacrifice as remedy for having been born of woman / Nancy Jay -- 'Shahbano' / Zakia Pathak and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- A question of origins : goddess cults Greek and modern / Helene P. Foley -- On medicine women and white shame-ans : new age Native Americanism and commodity fetishism as pop culture feminism / Laura E. Donaldson -- 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 / Katherine Clay 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 -- 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 : women's heads in early Christianity / 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 and Pragna Patel -- Agency, activism, and agendas / Patricia Jeffery -- Tender warriors / Linda Kintz -- Getting religion / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- The academy as real life : new participants and paradigms in the study of religion / Judith Plaskow.

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