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Trade Review"This collection of essays comes from the University of Bristol's Center for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender in the U.K. Bringing together experts from a wide variety of disciplines, this is an interesting collection on some of the recent intellectual developments in the ever controversial field where gender, religion and diversity come together" -Conscience, Summer / Autumn 2004"
Table of ContentsContributors and Editors; Preface and Acknowledgements; General Introduction - Ursula King, University of Bristol; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; Introduction to Part I - Tina Beattie, University of Surrey Roehampton; 1. Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Go?: Women's Studies and Gender in Religion and Feminist Theology, - Rita M. Gross, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire; 2. Postcolonial and Gendered Reflections: Challenges for Religious Studies, - Morny Joy, University of Calgary; 3. Rethinking Subjectivity in the Gender-Oriented Study of Religions: Kristeva and the 'Subject-in-Process', - Sian Hawthorne, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; 4. On Understanding that the Struggle for Truth is Moral and Spiritual, - Harriet A. Harris, Wadham College, Oxford; 5. Religious Identity and the Ethics of Representation: The Study of Religion in the Secular Academy, - Tina Beattie; 6. Raced and Gendered Perspectives: Towards the Epidermalization of Subjectivity in Religious Studies Theory, - Mary Keller, University of Stirling; Part II: Historical and Textual Perspectives; Introduction to Part II, - Tina Beattie; 7. From Women's History to Feminist Theology: Gender, Witness and Canonicity in the Religious Narration of the Holocaust, - Melissa Raphael, Gloucestershire University; 8. Rethinking Religion in Gender History: Historiographical and Methodological Reflections, - Sue Morgan, University College Chichester; 9. The Gendering of Missionary Imperialism: The Search for an Integrated Methodology, - Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani, Independent Scholar - formerly at the University of Bristol; 10. Gender Archaeology and Paleochristianity, - Diane Treacy-Cole, University of Bristol; 11. 'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus': On the Relationship between Religion, Gender and Space, - Jorunn Okland, Universities of Sheffield and Oslo; 12. Biblical Gender Strategies: The Case of Abraham's Masculinity, - Deborah Sawyer, University of Lancaster; Part III. Cultural and Contextual Perspectives; Introduction to Part III, - Tina Beattie; 13. Who are the Muslims? Questions of Identity, Gender and Culture in Research Methodologies, - Anne Sofie Roald, University of Malmo, Sweden; 14. Reflexive Transformations: Research Comments on Me(n, Feminist Philosophy and the Thealogial Imagination, - Paul Reid-Bowen, Gloucestershire University; 15. Why Difference Matters: Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Religion and Gender, - Sean Gill, University of Bristol; 16. Indian Dalit Women and the Bible: Hermaneutical and Methodological Reflections, - Monica Melanchthon; 17. Race, Gender, Class and the Theology of Empowerment: An Indian Perspective, - Mukti Barton, Queen's College, Birmingham; 18. An Asian Postcolonial and Feminist Methodology: Ethics as a Recognition of Limits, - Sharon Bong, University of Lancaster and Malaysia; 19. Whose Face in the Mirror? Personal and Postcolonial Obstacles in Researching Africa's Contemporary Women's Theological Voices - Carrie Pemberton, Independent Scholar (formerly at Cambridge University); Index.
