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Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women’s Studies in Religion

Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women’s Studies in Religion

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538154441
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 26/05/2021
Width: 18.8 cm
Height: 25.4 cm

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.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Rabia Harris, Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York

Editor’s Introduction

Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica

Section One: A Firmly Fluid Foundation for Women’s Studies in Religion

  1. A Work in Progress—Feminist Scholarship Shaping God’s Image—Then and Now

Jacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York

  1. The Inclusive Language of God and Why It Matters for Women’s Studies in Religion

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College

  1. Doing Women’s Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life

Natalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College

  1. Women’s Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and At the Borders: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions Through Art and Activism

Rebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota

Section Two: Ethical Connections

  1. Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges

Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

  1. Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All

Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist)

  1. Feminist Theological and Ethical Responses to Testimonial Injustice

Candace Y. Jordan, Princeton, PhD candidate

  1. Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Healthcare’s Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain

Anjeanette M. Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student

Section Three: Religious Diversity and Women’s Studies in Religion

  1. Constructing Wicca as ‘Women’s Religion’: A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship

Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University

  1. For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities

Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College

  1. Introducing Asian Trans Pacific American Feminist Theology

Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Dennison University

  1. “I am the one who will change the direction of the world”: A Female Guru’s Response to Gender-Motivated Sexual Abuse and Inequality in Hinduism

Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University

  1. Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College

  1. Muslimah Theology and Praxis

[Zayn Kassam, Pomona College

  1. Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church

HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

Section Four: Challenging and Changing Systemic Gender Injustice

  1. What’s Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement?

Marie M. Fortune, Faith Trust Institute

  1. Femicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique

Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica

  1. Call to Accountability: Women’s Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum

Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica

  1. Doctrine of Discovery: a Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women

Dawn Martin-Hill, McMaster University

  1. Women’s Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice

Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College

Section Five: Future Movement—The Becoming of Women’s Studies in Religion

  1. Feminism, Religion, and the Digital World

Gina Messina, Ursuline College

  1. Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces Online

Krista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  1. Minoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-politics of Democracy

Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College

  1. Spiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence

Denise Starkey, The College of St. Scholastica

  1. Hope Now

Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Institute

  1. Resources for Clarification, Education and Action

Index

Contributors

Helen T. Boursier

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.

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