Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.

Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.

Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.

Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.

Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.

Argues that Islamic law does not accord a lesser status to women and elaborates Muslim women's rights in a variety of areas.

Explores the religious thought and lives of the poor women of Peru, who were central to the birth of liberation theology.

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

This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.

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

Explores the lives and religious imaginations of colonial women and the contributions they made to colonial religious discourse.

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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 ...

Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, an important but neglected Renaissance mystic.

A remarkable spiritual testimony, this complete transcription of Florence Nightingale's hitherto-unpublished diary (recorded during visits to Egypt and Greece in 1850) reveals the troubled period during which she finally realized that the answer to her call from God lay in service to humanity.

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, ...

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 ...

This is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and ...

This book offers the reader an introduction to the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Novalis and includes the more ...

Women, Religion and Social Change focuses attention on the way in which women from a number of religious traditions have been able to bring about change and the manner in which religions have either facilitated ...