Gender, Theology and Spirituality
About the Book Series
The series explores the gendered nature and practice of theology and spirituality and aims to extend the boundaries of theology through materialist and radical analysis.
Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy
1st Edition
By Joseph Gelfer
August 08, 2014
Since the early 1990s there have been various movements designed to encourage 'masculine spirituality'. All these movements share a concern that spirituality has become too feminine and that men's experiences of the spiritual are being marginalized. The task of masculine spirituality is to promote ...
Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains
1st Edition
By Lisa Isherwood
August 08, 2014
Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains takes as a starting point the hermeneutics of suspicion. The book illustrates the way in which texts and interpretations have been manipulated for the purpose of power and control. Through careful-counter readings it challenges the ways in which the female ...
Ritual Making Women: Shaping Rites for Changing Lives
1st Edition
By Jan Berry
August 08, 2014
Ritual Making Women looks at the way in which women's making of ritual has emerged from the rapidly developing field of women's spirituality and theology. The author uses ethnographic material to explore how the construction of ritual uses story-making and embodied action to empower women. Ritual, ...
Women and Reiki: Energetic/Holistic Healing in Practice
1st Edition
By Judith MacPherson
August 08, 2014
'Women and Reiki' is the first ethnographic study of Reiki and energetic healing in Britain. The book argues that if we are to build an accurate and comprehensive picture of healing we must examine the role of gender, representation and power. Although women healers predominate at the grass roots ...