Authors: Ursula King
ISBN-13: 9780631193777, ISBN-10: 0631193774
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
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).
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.
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Contributors | ||
Preface and Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: Gender and the Study of Religion | 1 | |
1 | The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion | 45 |
2 | Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies | 65 |
3 | Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender: An Examination of the Work of Paul Ricoeur | 77 |
4 | Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Religion | 101 |
5 | God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women's Invocations of the Divine | 121 |
6 | The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy | 145 |
7 | Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess | 165 |
8 | Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo-Feminist Perspective | 177 |
9 | Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion | 199 |
10 | A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion | 219 |
11 | Women's Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives | 245 |
12 | Women and New Religious Movements in Africa | 257 |
13 | Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan | 291 |
Index | 311 |