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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women's Studies in Religion


The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women's Studies in Religion


The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook Series

von: Helen T. Boursier

47,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB, PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.06.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781538154458
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 390

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<p><span>The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women’s studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the spectrum of women’s studies in religion, blurring the boundaries beyond “religious studies” to include perspectives from ethics, philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity addresses challenges for women’s studies through the lens of Wicca, Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application in the section on challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and justice, include how to engage the theories of women’s studies in religion in the public square through civic engagement to create empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future movement of the becoming of women’s studies with chapters digital activism, reimagining women’s mosque spaces online, minoritized sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers to see “hope now” by challenging and changing gender injustice.</span></p>
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<p><span>The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women’s studies in religion alongside specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse backgrounds. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application. </span></p>
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<p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p>
<p><span>Foreword by Rabia Harris, Community of Living Traditions</span></p>
<p><span>Editor’s Introduction by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica </span></p>
<p><span>SECTION ONE • A FIRMLY FLUID FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES IN RELIGION</span></p>
<p><span>1 A Work in Progress: Feminist Scholarship Shaping God’s Image—Then and Now </span><span>by Jacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York</span></p>
<p><span>2 The Inclusive Language of God: Why It Matters for Women’s Studies in Religion </span><span>by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins Colleg</span></p>
<p><span>3 </span><span>Doing </span><span>Women’s Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life </span><span>by Natalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College</span></p>
<p><span>4 Women’s Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and at the Border: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions through Art and Activism </span><span>by Rebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota</span></p>
<p><span>SECTION TWO • ETHICAL CONNECTIONS</span></p>
<p><span>5 Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges </span><span>by Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada</span></p>
<p><span>6 Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All </span><span>by Sharon D. Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School</span><span>(Unitarian Universalist)</span></p>
<p><span>7 Feminist Ethics and the Harms of Credibility Excess </span><span>by Candace Jordan, Princeton University, PhD candidate</span></p>
<p><span>8 Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Health Care’s Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain </span><span>by Anjeanette M.</span><span>Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student</span></p>
<p><span>SECTION THREE • RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S STUDIES IN RELIGION</span></p>
<p><span>9 Constructing Wicca as “Women’s Religion”: A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship </span><span>by Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University</span></p>
<p><span>10 For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities </span><span>by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College</span></p>
<p><span>11 Introducing Asian Transpacific American Feminist Theology </span><span>by Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Denison University</span></p>
<p><span>12 “I Am the One Who Will Change the Direction of the World”: A Female Guru’s Response to Sexual Inequality and Violence in Hinduism </span><span>by Antoinette E.</span><span>DeNapoli, Texas Christian University</span></p>
<p><span>13 Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years </span><span>by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College</span></p>
<p><span>14 Muslimah Theology and Praxis </span><span>by Zayn Kassam, Pomona College</span></p>
<p><span>15 Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church </span><span>by HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto</span></p>
<p><span>SECTION FOUR • CHALLENGING AND CHANGING SYSTEMIC GENDER INJUSTICE</span></p>
<p><span>16 What’s Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement? </span><span>by Marie M. Fortune, FaithTrust Institute</span></p>
<p><span>17 Femicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique </span><span>by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica</span></p>
<p><span>18 Call to Accountability: Women’s Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum </span><span>by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica</span></p>
<p><span>19 Doctrine of Discovery: A Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women </span><span>by Dawn Martin-Hill,</span><span>McMaster University</span></p>
<p><span>20 Women’s Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice </span><span>by Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College</span></p>
<p><span>SECTION FIVE • FUTURE MOVEMENT—THE BECOM</span><span>ING </span><span>OF WOMEN’S STUDIES IN RELIGION</span></p>
<p><span>21 Feminism, Religion, and the Digital World </span><span>by Gina Messina, Ursuline College</span></p>
<p><span>22 Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces Online </span><span>by Krista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada</span></p>
<p><span>23 Minoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-Politics of Democracy </span><span>by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College</span></p>
<p><span>24 Spiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence </span><span>by Denise Starkey, College of St. Scholastica</span></p>
<p><span>25 Hope Now </span><span>by Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary</span></p>
<p><span>26 Resources for Clarification, Education, and Action</span></p>
<p><span>Index</span></p>
<p><span>About the Contributors</span></p>
<p><span>Helen T. Boursier is a professor of theology at College of St. Mary and Austin Graduate School of Theology. She is a founding member of Feminist Theology in Religion, an academic research group who publish the Journal of Theological Feminist Research. She has a PhD in Theology and a PhD of Divinity and is an ordained priest</span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>4/29/22, </span><span>Choice</span><span>: This book was featured in a roundup of top community college titles for the month of April 2022.</span></p>
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<p><span>Link: <a href="https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-april-2022/"><span>https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-april-2022/</span></a></span></p>
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