Women and new and Africana religions
By: Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise C. Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo, editors.
Contributors: Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian.; Martin, Darnise C.; Olademo, Oyeronke.
Series: Women and religion in the world
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780275991562; 9780313082726
Subjects: Women -- Religious life; Women and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo; title: Women, family, environment; title: "That girl is poison" : white supremacy, anxiety, and the conflation of women and food in the nation of Islam / Stephen C. Finley and Margarita L. Simon; title: Receiving, embodying, and sharing "divine wisdom" : women in the nation of gods and earths / Felicia M. Miyakawa; title: The living shrine : life and meaning in Oyotunji / Yeyefini Efunbolade; title: Socioeconomics, politics, authority; title: Vodou : a heritage of power / Susheel Bibbs; title: Mind, body, spirit; title: Serving the spirits, healing the person : women in Afro-Brazilian religions / Kelly E. Hayes; title: Dance attributes of female Orishas in Yoruba-derived religions in the diaspora / Halifu Osumare; title: Sexuality, power, vulnerability; title: To have and to hold : possession performance in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha / Katherine Hagedorn; title: African descendent women and religion : diaspora in Oriente Cuba / Jualynne E. Dodson; title: Religion and women's sexuality in Africa : the intersection of power and vulnerability / Oyeronke Olademo; title: Women, worldview, religious practice; title: A religion of the interstices : Asian Pacific American women and multiple religious practices / Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier; title: Diana's grove : an emergent, integrative spiritual movement / John K. Simmons, Susan E. Hill, and Cynthea Jones; title: The good wife : the religious experience of women in scientology / Dawn L. Hutchinson; title: Senses of place : women greening communities / Kimberly Whitney; title: African women in traditional religions : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila.