Feminism and Religion,9780807067857

Feminism and Religion

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780807067857
ISBN10: 0807067857
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-31
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary

Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself. "This book will be an important resource for all ongoing work in feminist teaching and research in religion." -Rosemary Radford Ruether

Author Biography

Rita M. Gross is professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. She is the author of Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism and coeditor, with Nancy Auer Falk of Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(4)
Defining Feminism, Religion, and the Study of Religion
5(24)
Feminism's Impact on Religion and Religious Studies: A Brief History
29(36)
Where Have All the Women Been? The Challenge of Feminist Study of Religion
65(40)
No Girls Allowed? Are the World's Religions Inevitably Sexist?
105(44)
Has It Always Been That Way? Rereading the Past
149(49)
What Next? Postpatriarchal Religion
198(51)
Notes 249(24)
Index 273

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