Women Religion And The Gift

Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319431897
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Religion, and the Gift written by Morny Joy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the special dynamics of women and their close relationships with the gift in both past and contemporary religious settings. Written from a cross-cultural perspective, it challenges depictions of women’s roles in religion where they have been relegated to compliance with specifically designated gendered attributes. The different chapters contest the resultant stereotypes that deny women agency. Each chapter describes women as engaged in an aspect of religion, from that of ritual specialists, to benefactors and patrons, or even innovators. The volume examines topics such as sainthood and sacrifice so as to refine these ideas in constructive ways that do not devalue women. It also examines the meaning of the term “gift” today, embracing the term in both figurative and literal ways. Such a collection of diverse women’s writings and activities provides a significant contribution to their quest for recognition, and also suggests ways this can be understood and realized today.

Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010330
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Gift written by Morny Joy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects of the gift from a woman's point of view. In the light of philosophical work by Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Bataille, Women and the Gift reflects how women respond to the notion of the gift and relationships of giving. This collection evaluates and critiques previous work on the gift and also responds to how women view care, fidelity, generosity, trust, and independence in light of the gift.

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060614099
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion written by Elizabeth A. Clark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-11-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... a difinitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership ... This new edition ... includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis ..."--Back cover

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253346872
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories written by Rosemary Skinner Keller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520910713
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gender of the Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.

Author : Karen L. Garst
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 163431171X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women v. Religion written by Karen L. Garst and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, religion has been used as a tool of female subjugation. Women have been deemed less worthy than men, have been prevented from owning property, and worse—all in the name of a higher power. In recent decades, women have made progress in terms of equal rights with men, at least in Western democracies, but still, why has the United States never had a female president? Why aren't more women heads of Fortune 500 companies? Why do politicians in the West continue to attack women's reproductive rights? As this volume explores, it would be hard to find a bigger culprit than religion when identifying the last cultural barriers to full gender equality. With topics ranging from the subjugation of women in the Bible to the shame and guilt felt by women due to religious teaching, this volume makes clear that only by rejecting the very system that limits their autonomy will women be fully liberated from its malignant influences, not just in codified law but also in cultural practice.

Author : Lillian Ashcraft-Eason
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and New and Africana Religions written by Lillian Ashcraft-Eason and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice. This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum. In Women and New and Africana Religions, readers hear from women from a number of religious/spiritual persuasions around the world, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North America. These voices form the core of remarkable explorations of family and environment, social and spiritual empowerment, sexuality and power, and ways in which worldview informs roles in religion and society. Each essay includes scene-setting historical and social background information and fascinating insights from renowned scholars sharing their own research and firsthand experiences with their subjects.

Author : Monique Moultrie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137485752
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide for Women in Religion, Revised Edition written by Monique Moultrie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significantly updated and expanded, this indispensable resource offers students and scholars alike real advice in navigating the ever-changing academic landscape. Offering practical guidance on graduate school, dissertation-writing, job interviews, promotions, retirement, publications, conferences, and so much more, this is the essential resource.

Author : Maria Fedoryka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860826788
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Special Gift of Women written by Maria Fedoryka and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world which has many confused ideas about gender and seeks to play down any difference between the sexes; yet it is by their very difference that men and women enrich each other's lives. This beautiful booklet considers the gifts that God has entrusted to woman in particular, and the gifts which she can give for God's glory, for the good of those whose lives she touches, and for her own happiness.

Author : Eric Ludy
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307564215
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Gift to Women written by Eric Ludy and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture that exalts the caveman-like qualities of masculinity, most women have stopped expecting anything more. Young men are taught to view women as slaves to their self-centered desires. More than ever, men need to know that they can rise above this sad mediocrity. They desperately need someone to recognize their potential for blending courage and kindness, strength and spiritual sensitivity. With its riveting vision of Christ-centered manhood, God's Gift to Women shows young men how to become the heroic, selfless knight that every woman dreams about. Buried Inside Every Young Man Is the Potential to Change the World Deep within the rugged soul of every young man, there is a warrior in search of his sword and a poet in search of his pen. But heroic, prince-like masculinity is something most women only dream of in today’s perverse and self-serving world. With contagious passion and boldness, Eric Ludy challenges you to forsake modern male mediocrity for Christ-built, warrior-poet manhood—manhood that will capture the heart of a woman and change the course of history.