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Ritualizing Women
Author | : Lesley A. Northup |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040066527 |
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Northup offers a captivating, in-depth examination of many of the issues regarding women's ritualizing -- such as the common patterns and images used, the construction of sacred space and time, the value of narrative, and the patterns of politics and social action. A fascinating, definitive study of post-modernism and universality in the context of women's worship.
Celebrating Her
Author | : Wendy Hunter Roberts |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105023082543 |
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A feminist exploration of eight rites and celebrations of the emerging goddess-centered women's spirituality movement. "Celebrating Her" probes the symbol system and forms being used by grassroots groups in order to discern what these homegrown rituals reflect about women's status and how they empower women's religious leadership.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual
Author | : Risto Uro,Juliette Day,Rikard Roitto,Richard E. DeMaris |
Publsiher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780198747871 |
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Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and Early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum toward producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of Early Christianity employing advances made in the field of ritual studies. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual gives a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches; central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity; and important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions.
Women s Rites of Passage
Author | : Abigail Brenner |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0742547485 |
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Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.
Women Ritual and Power
Author | : Elizabeth Ursic |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438452852 |
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Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship. Many Christians do not know the Bible contains female images of God because they have never heard nor seen them in church. In Women, Ritual, and Power, Elizabeth Ursic gives the reader insight into four Christian communities that worship God with female imagery, both as a worship focus and a community identity. These Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Catholic congregations operate within their established church denominations and are led by either ordained Protestant ministers or vowed Catholic sisters. Because expressing God-as-She can expose strident claims for maintaining God-as-He, this book shows not only how patriarchy continues to operate in churches today, but also how it is being successfully challenged through liturgy. Women, Ritual, and Power is an important contribution to the theological world. Elizabeth Ursic sheds light on what has enabled churches to include female images for the divine and provides multiple narratives of the negative reactions to such images. As she displays how gender is understood in Christian worship with evidence that some churches do include feminist imagery, the continuing presence of patriarchy is also revealed. The book is basically about the constructive function of the inclusion of feminine images for all. One of the main reasons we need this book is that Ursic perceives there is a much wider/larger group of Christians who would love to have more feminist images than is recognized in churches and church practices. Mary McClintock Fulkerson, author of Changing the Subject: Womens Discourses and Feminist Theology
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology
Author | : Susan Frank Parsons |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002-07-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0521663806 |
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Feminist theology is a significant movement within contemporary theology. The aim of this Companion is to give an outline of feminist theology through an analysis of its overall shape and its major themes, so that both its place in and its contributions to the present changing theological landscape may be discerned. The two sections of the volume are designed to provide a comprehensive and critical introduction to feminist theology which is authoritative and up-to-date. Written by some of the main figures in feminist theology, as well as by younger scholars who are considering their inheritance, it offers fresh insights into the nature of feminist theological work. The book as a whole is intended to present a challenge for future scholarship, since it critically engages with the assumptions of feminist theology, and seeks to open ways for women after feminism to enter into the vocation of theology.
Teaching Women s Studies in Conservative Contexts
Author | : Cantice Greene |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317285878 |
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Women’s Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom. The field, partly due to its activist origins, is often associated with liberal ideology and is therefore chided by students and others who identify as conservative. The goal of this book is to introduce conservative perspectives into the issues of gender, sexuality, race, and power that are topics of teaching and discussion in women’s studies courses. The book also aims to provide examples of pathways by which conservative students and scholars can engage the field of women’s studies, not as opponents, but as contributors. Contributors including administrators, activists, scholar-teachers, artists, and ministers come together in this collection to engage in writing and response and to add their approaches to teaching and administering women’s studies on their campuses.
Women s Lives Women s Rituals in the Hindu Tradition
Author | : Tracy Pintchman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-03-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198039344 |
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In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals. This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious practice.