Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader

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Introduction: E.A.Castelli PART I: CATEGORIES OF ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE: 'GENDER,' 'RELIGION,' 'FEMINISM' What's in a Name? Exploring the Dimensions of What 'Feminist Studies in Religion' Means M.Peskowitz Weaving the Fabric of our Lives C.P.Christ Unweaving: A Response to Carol Christ M.Peskowitz A Further Response C.P.Christ 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word D.J.Haraway The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yoruba Language, Orature, and World-Sense O.Oyewumi Snakes Alive: Resituating the Moral in the Study of Religion R.A.Orsi Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism M.Moallem PART II: ORIGINS, IDENTITIES, AND APPROPRIATIONS Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character M.Bal Sacrifice as Remedy for Having Been Born of Woman N.Jay 'Shahbano' Z.Pathak & R.S.Rajan A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern H.P.Foley On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism L.E.Donaldson PART III: GENDER AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES Margery Kempe Answers Back C.Dinshaw Sexology and the Occult: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Theosophy's New Age J.Dixon Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson K.C.Bassard The Woman Who Wanted to Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community Y.Bilu The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia A.Ong PART IV: GENDER, RELIGION, AND BODY POLITICS From a 'Pot of Filth' to a 'Hedge of Roses' (and Back): Changing Theorizations of Menstruation in Judaism J.Steinberg Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels M.R.D'Angelo The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women H.Hoodfar Women Who Walk on Water: Working across 'Race' in Women Against Fundamentalism C.Connolly & P.Patel Agency, Activism, and Agendas P.Jeffery Tender Warriors L.Kintz Getting Religion J.R.Jakobsen & A.Pellegrini PART V: GENDER AND RELIGION IN THE POLITICS OF THE ACADEMY The Academy as Real Life: New Participants & Paradigms in the Study of Religion J.Plaskow