Women in contemporary world religion
Subtitle: promise and practice
By: Daniel C. Maguire and Sa'diyya Shaikh, editors.
Contributors: Maguire, Daniel C.; Shaikh, Sa'diyya.
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780829817676
Subjects: Women and religion; Women -- Religious aspects
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the religiously induced illness of women's subordination and its cure / Daniel C. Maguire; title: Violence against women in world religions / Christine Gudorf; title: The court room and the garden: gender and violence in christendom / Grace Jantzen; title: The karma of women / David Loy; title: A tafsir of praxis: gender, marital violence, and resistance in a south african muslim community / Sa'diyya Shaikh; title: The mother of life and the god of death: religious roots of violence against women in Christianity / John Raines; title: Rectification of the four teachings in chinese culture / Hsiao-Lan Hu; title: Muntu, Kintu, and the pursuit of Bumuntu: reflection on the roots of violence against women in African traditional religions / Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha; title: Sita's epic journey: reflections on the violence in the lives of Hindu women in North India / Veena Talwar Oldenburg; title: Buddhism and violence against women / Ouyporn Khuankaew; title: "I will espouse you with righteousness and justice": domestic violence and Judaism / Liora Gubkin; title: Sexual violence in the Catholic Church / Maria Jose Rosado-Nunes and Regina Soares Jurkewicz; title: Conclusion: the role of religion in violence against women / Arvind Sharma.