Religion and WomenArvind Sharma State University of New York Press, 21 בספט׳ 2015 - 291 עמודים 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 within which their positions could be comprehensively considered. The contributing scholars provide an enlarged database for a more thorough discussion of the questions pertaining to women and religion in general, and simultaneously advance the theoretical frontiers in women's studies. Religion and Women belongs to a trilogy about women and world religions edited by Arvind Sharma the first and third volumes being respectively, Women in World Religions and Today's Woman in World Religions. |
תוכן
Dugan At the Beginning Was | 39 |
J Hackett Women in African Religions | 61 |
Nalini Balbir Women in Jainism | 121 |
Ketayun H Gould Outside the Discipline | 139 |
Rajkumari Shanker Women in Sikhism | 183 |
Susan S Maneck Women in the Bahai Faith | 211 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 243 |
Contributors | 259 |
| 271 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abdu'l-Baha Adi Granth African Amaterasu American religions ancient associated Baha'i faith Baha'i women believed Bombay Boyce century ceremonies Choksy context cult cultural daughter deity Digambaras divine Drewal earth emperor Empress Empress Jingū equality evil fact father female feminine symbolism gender Guru Himiko Hindu House of Justice human husband Ibibio identity images imperial Indian initiation Iran Islam Izanagi Jain Jaini Jainism Japan Jina Jingū kami Kojiki lives Mahāvīra marriage married matrilineal menstruation mother myths Nanak Native American Nigeria nuns Parsi Parsi Zoroastrian patriarchal period political pollution Press priests Princess reform regarding religious tradition rites ritual role sacred scriptures sexual Shinto Shoghi Effendi shrine Sikh Sikhism social societies spirit status of women story sun goddess supreme Susano-o Śvetāmbaras taboos Tahirih texts tion Tokyo Universal House Vendidad wife woman women in Sikhism women in Zoroastrianism women's religious World Religions worship Yoruba Zoroastrian Zuesse