Gender, religion and diversity cross-cultural perspectives (Continuum, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
General introduction - Gender-critical turns in the study of religion - Ursula King -- - pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives. Introduction to part I - Tina Beattie -- - Where have we been? Where do we need to go? Women's studies and gender in religion and feminist theology - Rita M. Gross -- - Postcolonial and gendered reflections: challenges for religious studies - Morny Joy -- - Rethinking subjectivity in the gender-oriented study of religions: Kristeva and the 'subject-in-process' - Sîan Hawthorne -- - On understanding that the struggle for truth is moral and spiritual - Harriet A. Harris -- - Religious identity and the ethics of representation: the study of religion and gender in the secular academy - Tina Beattie -- - Raced and gendered perspectives: towards the epidermalization of subjectivity in religious studies theory - Mary Keller -- - pt. 2. Historical and textual perspectives. Introduction to part II - Tina Beattie --
- From women's history to feminist theology: gender, witness, and canonicity in the religious narration of the Holocaust - Melissa Raphael -- - Rethinking religion in gender history: historiographical and methodological reflections - Sue Morgan -- - The gendering of missionary imperialism: the search for an integrated methodology - Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani -- - Gender archaeology and paleochristianity - Diane Treacy-Cole -- - 'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus': on the relationship between religion, gender, and space - Jorunn Økland -- - Biblical gender strategies: the case of Abraham's masculinity - Deborah F. Sawyer -- - pt. 3. Cultural and contextual perspectives. Introduction to part III - Tina Beattie -- - Who are the Muslims? Questions of identity, gender, and culture in research methodologies - Anne Sofie Roald -- - Reflexive transformations: research comments on me(n), feminist philosophy, and the thealogical imagination - Paul Reid-Bowen --
- Why difference matters: lesbian and gay perspectives on religion and gender - Sean Gill -- - Indian Dalit women and the Bible: hermeneutical and methodological reflections - Monica Melanchthon -- - Race, gender, class, and the theology of empowerment: an Indian perspective - Mukti Barton -- - An Asian postcolonial and feminist methodology: ethics as a recognition of limits - Sharon A. Bong -- - Whose face in the mirror? Personal and postcolonial obstacles in researching Africa's contemporary women's theological voices - Carrie Pemberton