Religion and Gender,9780631193777

Religion and Gender

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631193777
ISBN10: 0631193774
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-01-09
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book will provide an ideal introduction to debates in the field for students and researchers concerned with the impact of women's studies and wider gender issues on religion around the world.

Author Biography

Ursula King is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has published many books and articles. Her most recent publications include Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise (1993) and an edited reader on Feminist Theology from the Third World (1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction
ender and the Study of Religion
Theoretical Reflections:
The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion
Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies
Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender
Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Problems of Gender and Religion
God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women's Invocation of the Divine
The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy
Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess
Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo-Feminist Perspective
Empirical Investigations:
Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion
A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion
Women's Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives
Women and New Religious Movements in Africa
Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan
otes on Contributors
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