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Authors: Ursula King
ISBN-13: 9780631193777, ISBN-10: 0631193774
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Ursula King

Ursula King is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has published many books and articles. Her most recent publications include Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise (1993) and an edited reader on Feminist Theology from the Third World (1994).

Book Synopsis

This book will provide an ideal introduction to debates in the field for students and researchers concerned with the impact of women's studies and wider gender issues on religion around the world.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Gender and the Study of Religion1
1The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion45
2Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies65
3Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender: An Examination of the Work of Paul Ricoeur77
4Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Religion101
5God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women's Invocations of the Divine121
6The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy145
7Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess165
8Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo-Feminist Perspective177
9Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion199
10A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion219
11Women's Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives245
12Women and New Religious Movements in Africa257
13Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan291
Index311

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