Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere

By Oyeronke Olajubu
Foreword by Jacob K. Olupona
Subjects: Area Studies
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion—both Christianity and Yoruba traditional religion.

Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess

By Hillary Rodrigues
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

A first-hand description of the Durga Puja, the Hinda celebration of the Great Goddess.

Methodology in Religious Studies

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Explores the impact of women's studies on methodology in religious studies.

Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahābhārata

By Julian F. Woods
Subjects: Asian Studies
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Considers the questions of free will in the great India epic, the Mahabharata.

Identifying Selfhood

By Henry Isaac Venema
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Traces the decentered formulation of self at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy from his earliest works to his most recent.

Women Saints in World Religions

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.

The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra

By Francis Brassard
Subjects: Asian Studies
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

An examination of bodhicitta, a key concept in Mahauyauna Buddhism.

Freedom through Inner Renunciation

By Roger Marcaurelle
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This first full-length study of renunication in Sankara's Advaita Vedanta shows that Sankara's position has been misinterpreted by both traditional and modern commentators and brings his actual position to light.

Feminism and World Religions

Edited by Arvind Sharma & Katherine K. Young
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books

Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist ...

Kenosis and Feminist Theology

By Marta Frascati-Lochhead
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Using a perspective derived from the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, Frascati-Lochhead explores the response of feminist theology to postmodern theory.

Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind

By Anne Mackenzie Pearson
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Explores the history and nature of vrats (ritual fasts) in text and practice, and the roles these rites play in the lives of Hindu women in North India.

Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance

By Tazim R. Kassam
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This is a survey of the Ismaili Muslim traditions and a translation of many Santpanth Ismaili Ginans (hymns.)

Today's Woman in World Religions

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, ...

Religion and Women

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha'i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework ...

Over the Rainbow

By Paul Nathanson
Foreword by Katherine K. Young
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Over the Rainbow shows how Dorothy's passage from Kansas to Oz and back again recapitulates paradigmatic stories of both America and Christianity. Defining human identity on three symbolic levels (individual, ...

Religion and Aging in the Indian Tradition

By Shrinivas Tilak
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: SUNY series in Aging, SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

The manner of aging is a cultural construct and there is a specifically Indian way of aging. That way is shown in this book through the anlyses of key concepts--aging (jara), stages of life (asarama), ...

Hindu Ethics

Edited by Harold Coward, Julius Lipner, and Katherine K. Young
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Modern Western approaches to India often have focused on metaphysics at the expense of ethics, leading many to see Hinduism as only concerned with the esoteric and the otherworldly. The chapters of this ...

Women in World Religions

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Introduction by Katherine K. Young
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in the major religious traditions of humanity: ...