Routledge Library Editions: Women and Religion
A Map of the New Country: Women and Christianity
1st Edition
By Sara Maitland
October 25, 2016
Most feminists have turned away from the Christian churches, regarding both Catholicism and the protestant denominations as bastions of sexism and patriarchal oppression. However, Christian feminists committed to improving the position of Christian women and to the spiritual renewal of their ...
Muslim Women
1st Edition
Edited
By Freda Hussain
October 25, 2016
The history of Islam and the changing role-performance of Muslim women, given the various interpretations of the belief system of Islam, are described. It is the contention of the authors that it is these various interpretations which have given rise to the conflict between the ideal and contextual...
Passport to Heaven: Gender Roles in the Unification Church
1st Edition
By Kathleen S. Lowney
October 25, 2016
This book focuses on the gender roles within the Unification Church, and on particularly the gender roles as expressed through the vows of marriage. It examines the more widely shared patriarchal assumptions about women in a circumscribed socio-religious environment, with the Church’s gender role ...
Sex and God: Some Varieties of Women's Religious Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Hurcombe
October 25, 2016
These stories, essays and poems by women examine the connections feminists are making between sex and God. The women write from very different perspectives, cutting across the spectrum of feminist writing about sexuality and spirituality within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Some writers, though ...
Women's Religious Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Pat Holden
October 25, 2016
Most of the early literature concerning women’s religious experience is about exceptional women; those who diverged from the traditional female role to become nuns, mystics or charismatic leaders. While women were permitted to be prophets and visionaries they rarely played an important part in ...
Routledge Library Editions: Women and Religion
1st Edition
By Various
September 17, 2014
RLE Women and Religion gathers in one place a collection of previously out-of-print titles from a variety of historic imprints. Encompassing a range of experiences, the set provides an essential reference source on some of the key points in the field of women and religion. 1. A Map of the ...