Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America [electronic resource] /
edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether ; associate editor, Marie Cantlon.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- 3 v. (ix, 1394 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Integrating the worlds of women's religious experience in North America / Women and religion: methods of study and reflection / Religions and modern feminism / Gender and social roles / North American women interpret scripture / Women's religious imagination / Social ethics, women, and religion / The psychology of women's religious experience / Women's spiritual biography and autobiography / Native American creation stories / Native American women and Christianity / American Indian boarding schools / Appropriation of Native American religious traditions / Religious exchange in Aframerindian life / Women in African Caribbean religious traditions / Women in North American Catholicism / Religious women in colonial Mexico / Godmothers and goddaughters: Catholic women in colonial New France and New England / American Catholic women, 1820-1900: from the Jacksonian period to the progressive era / African American Catholic women / Latina popular Catholicism / Asian and Pacific American Catholic women / American Catholic women, 1900-1965 / American Catholic women since Vatican Council II / Determined builders, powerful voices: women and Catholicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Canada / Women and Protestantism in colonial New England / Protestant women in the Mid-Atlantic colonies / Southern colonial Protestant women / Protestantism in British North America (Canada) / Women and African American denominations / Women of Anabaptist traditions / Women in the American Episcopal Church / Women in the Anglican Church in Canada / Baptist women / Christian Church/Disciples of Christ tradition and women / Women and Lutheranism / Methodist women / Quaker women in North America / Women in Reformed churches / Presbyterian women in America / Women in the United Church of Canada / Women in the United Church of Christ / Women in the Unitarian Universalist movement / Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Rita M. Gross -- Ann Braude -- Susan Hill Lindley -- J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell -- Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Marilyn J. Legge -- Ann Belford Ulanov -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Laura Adams Weaver -- Kim Stone -- Andrea Smith -- Andrea Smith -- Patrick Neal Minges -- Dianne M. Stewart -- Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Kathleen Ann Myers -- Lisa J.M. Poirier -- Holly Folk -- Cecilia A. Moore -- Jeanette Rodriguez -- Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada -- Debra Campbell -- Mary Jo Weaver -- Carolyn Sharp -- Rebecca Larson -- Alison Duncan Hirsch -- Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Marilyn Färdig Whiteley -- Sandy Dwayne Martin -- Marlene Epp -- Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- Sharon Anne Cook -- Carolyn D. Blevins -- Loretta M. Long -- Mary Todd -- Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers -- Mary Van Vleck Garman -- Rebecca Button Prichard -- Lois A. Boyd -- Phyllis D. Airhart -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Cynthia Grant Tucker -- Introduction: pt. 1. Approaches to the history of women and religion. pt. 2. Women in indigenous and African traditions. pt. 3. Catholicism. pt. 4. Protestantism. Colonial period. Denominational traditions. Women in Pentecostalism / Women in the Salvation Army / Revivalism / Holiness movements / Sanctified Church(es) / Fundamentalism / America's evangelical women: more than wives and mothers: reformers, ministers, and leaders / Charismatic movement / Euro-American evangelical feminism / U.S. Latina evangélicas / Race and gender in Latina experience / Hispanic Pentecostal women / Asian Pacific American Protestant women / Women in Orthodox Christian traditions / Oriental Orthodox traditions and the Armenian Apostolic Church / An orthodox perspective on feminist theology / Reform Judaism / Tradition and change: finding the right balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism / Orthodox Jewish women in America: diversity, challenges, and coming of age / Jewish women and ritual / Jewish law and gender / Anti-Semitism / Islam, women, and the struggle for identity in North America / African American Muslim women / Women, Islam, and mosques / Women's issues in American Islam / Origins of Buddhism in North America / Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese / The way of the elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana movement / Tibetan Buddhism / Hinduism in North America including emerging issues / New Hindu movements / Religions of Chinese immigrant communities and Chinese religions practiced in North America by non-Chinese people / Religions of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American communities / Women and Jainism in North America / Sikh women in North America / Edith Blumhofer -- Diane Winston -- Priscilla Pope-Levison -- Nancy A. Hardesty -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Margaret L. Bendroth -- Jane Harris -- R. Marie Griffith -- Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner -- Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero -- Teresa Chávez Sauceda -- Gastón Espinosa -- Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim -- Demetra Velisarios Jaquet -- Barbara J. Merguerian -- Valerie A. Karras -- Karla Goldman -- Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Blu Greenberg -- Hasia R. Diner -- Norma Baumel Joseph -- Riv-Ellen Prell -- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Ingrid Mattson -- Jane I. Smith -- Lori Pierce -- Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson -- Sandy Boucher -- Amy Lavine -- Vasudha Narayanan -- Kathleen M. Erndl -- Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Ruth M. Tabrah -- Anne Vallely -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Evangelical Protestantism. Hispanic Protestantism. Asian Protestantism. pt. 5. Women in Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions. pt. 6. Judaism. pt. 7. Islam. pt. 8. Asian religions. Buddhism. Hinduism. Chinese religions. Japanese religions. Other religions. Women in communitarian societies / Mormon women / Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Vodou, spiritism, and Santería: hybridity and identity in Caribbean religions / Christian Science / Clara Evans Muhammad: pioneering social activism in the original Nation of Islam / Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age movements / Spiritualism / Women in the North American Baha'i community / Women in new religious movements since the 1960s / Women in Jewish renewal / Ancient matriarchies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist thought / Women in the Wiccan religion and contemporary paganism / The Deaconess movement / Protestant women missionaries: foreign and home / American Catholic women missionaries: 1870-2000 / Leadership and community building in Protestant women's organizations / "Lifting as we climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW) / National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) / Women and catechetics in the Roman Catholic tradition / Catholic women's colleges in the United States / Conservative Christian strategies in education / Women and Jewish education / Protestant Sunday schools and religious education / Protestant women's colleges in the United States / Women in theological education / When women enter the classroom: theory, theology, and teaching / Protestant women's ordination movement / The women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church / Jewish women's ordination / Protestant female preaching in the United States / Music and the arts. Women hymn writers / African American hymnody / Women's novels and religion, 1780-1900 / Women, religion, and American film / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Claudia L. Bushman -- Rita M. Lester -- Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi -- Sarah Gardner Cunningham -- Debra Mubashir Majeed -- Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft -- Cathy Gutierrez -- Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger -- Susan J. Palmer -- Reena Sigman Friedman -- Cynthia Eller -- Selena Fox -- Cynthia A. Jurisson -- Dana L. Robert -- Angelyn Dries -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Marcia Y. Riggs -- Mary L. Putrow -- Tracy Schier -- James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray -- David E. Kaufman -- Virginia Lieson Brereton -- Kathleen S. Hurty -- Jeanne P. McLean -- Barbara J. Blodgett -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau -- Pamela S. Nadell -- Catherine A. Brekus -- Edith Blumhofer -- Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Diane Capitani -- Judith Weisenfeld -- pt. 9. Newer religious movements. pt. 10. Multidenominational movements. Missionary movement. Women's societies. Religious education. The ordination movement. Women, religion, and social reform. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant social reform movements in the United States / Antislavery, abolitionism / Women and peace movements in North America / Settlement House movement / Social Gospel / Women and Garveyism / Civil rights movement / Engaged Buddhist women / Women's freedom and reproductive rights: the core fear of patriarchy / Ecofeminism / Jewish women's service organizations / Abundant life for all: the Young Women's Christian Association / Women and religion in the borderlands / Turning off the taps: public policy in Canada / The public leadership of women of faith: entrepreneurs, social alchemists, and bearers of religion in the world / Womanist theology / Euro-American feminist theology / Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious / political activism / Mujerista theology / Latina Roman Catholic theologies / Rebirth of the religion of the goddess / Women's issues in contemporary North American Buddhism / Lesbian and bisexual Issues in religion / Jewish feminism / The case for native liberation theology / Women-church / New feminist ritual / Women and healing in North America / Women in Protestant church societies and bureaucracies / Plural religious identities and households / Women's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations / Canadian women's religious issues / Inclusive language / New religious right / Sexuality and the Black church / Girlfriend theology: adolescent girls and faith communities / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford -- Anna M. Speicher -- Valarie Ziegler -- Eleanor J. Stebner -- Susan Hill Lindley -- Anthea D. Butler -- Rosetta E. Ross -- Judith Simmer-Brown -- Frances Kissling -- Heather Eaton -- Dianne Ashton -- Janine M. Denomme -- Daisy L. Machado -- Lois M. Wilson -- Katharine R. Henderson -- Emilie M. Townes -- Lucy Tatman -- Lara Medina -- Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Nancy Pineda-Madrid -- Carol P. Christ -- Rita M. Gross -- Mary E. Hunt -- Judith Plaskow -- Andrea Smith -- Mary E. Hunt -- Janet Walton -- Susan M. Setta -- Susan M. Hartmann -- Rita DasGupta Sherma -- Mary C. Boys -- Tracy J. Trothen -- Susan Thistlewaite -- Laura R. Olson -- Kelly Brown Douglas -- Dori Grinenko Baker. pt. 11. pt. 12. Women-centered theology. pt. 13. Contemporary women's issues in religion.
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