Feminism and religion
Subtitle: how faiths view women and their rights
By: Michele A. Paludi and J. Harold Ellens, editors
Series: Women's psychology; Women's psychology (Westport, Conn.)
Publisher: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781440838880
Subjects: Women; Religious aspects; Women and religion; Feminism; Women's rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michele A. Paludi; title: Views from the Bible and Buddhism to the Quran and Taoism. Is Faith in the Bible and Feminism Compatible? / Virginia Ingram ; The Goddess-worshipping age : feminist egalitarianism in prehistory and early history / Maija Jespersen ; Feminist perspectives from the Hebrew Bible / Ilona Rashkow ; The Church, woman, leadership, and the body / Silvia Geruza Fernandez Rodriguez ; Feminism re-frames who wrote Hebrew scriptures : 10th-Century Tamar, the "master" storyteller / Adrien J. Bledstein ; Women in the Holy Quran / Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi ; Feminism in Hinduism : female deities and their influence on South Asian culture / Divyaben Patel, Katherine Anne E. Scott, Paula K. Lundberg-Love, and Jeannine M. Galusha-Glasscock ; Feminism in Buddhism / Linda Chiang ; Femineity in the gospel of John / Kamila Blesing ; Feminism in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Maria Stoyadinova ; The mystical feminine in Baha'i scriptures / Paula A. Drewek; title: Religious philosophy in feminism and feminist action. Martial religion, ravaging warfare, and rape : polytheistic Greek and monotheistic Israelite views / Kathy L. Gaca ; Judaism and feminism / Ilona Rashkow ; A room prepared : women and the mystic experience / Anna Byrne ; The feminine spiritual / Deborah Brock ; Feminism and the pro-life/pro-choice debate / Jennifer Elisa Veninga ; Historical resonances of the feminine in the Brazilian Christian religions / Patricia Nobre ; Faith and feminism : resolving the gender issue through mythology and archetype / Deborah Brock ; Feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies in conversation / Suzanne M. Coyle ; Confucianism and feminism / Mary Wittbold ; Men are not yang and women are not yin : gender construction in the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching / Maija Jespersen ; American Muslim women and faith-inspired activism / Asma Uddin and Firdaus Arastu ; Special women in the Holy Quran / Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi ; Feminism and the future of religion / J. Harold Ellens.