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Book SynopsisThe handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women’s studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the spectrum of women’s studies in religion, blurring the boundaries beyond “religious studies” to include perspectives from ethics, philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity addresses challenges for women’s studies through the lens of Wicca, Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application in the section on challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and justice, include how to engage the theories of women’s studies in religion in the public square through civic engagement to create empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future movement of the becoming of women’s studies with chapters digital activism, reimagining women’s mosque spaces online, minoritized sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers to see “hope now” by challenging and changing gender injustice.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword
Rabia Harris, Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York
Editor’s Introduction
Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica
Section One: A Firmly Fluid Foundation for Women’s Studies in Religion
- A Work in Progress—Feminist Scholarship Shaping God’s Image—Then and Now
Jacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York
- The Inclusive Language of God and Why It Matters for Women’s Studies in Religion
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College
- Doing Women’s Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life
Natalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College
- Women’s Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and At the Borders: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions Through Art and Activism
Rebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota
Section Two: Ethical Connections
- Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
- Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All
Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist)
- Feminist Theological and Ethical Responses to Testimonial Injustice
Candace Y. Jordan, Princeton, PhD candidate
- Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Healthcare’s Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain
Anjeanette M. Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student
Section Three: Religious Diversity and Women’s Studies in Religion
- Constructing Wicca as ‘Women’s Religion’: A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship
Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University
- For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College
- Introducing Asian Trans Pacific American Feminist Theology
Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Dennison University
- “I am the one who will change the direction of the world”: A Female Guru’s Response to Gender-Motivated Sexual Abuse and Inequality in Hinduism
Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University
- Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College
- Muslimah Theology and Praxis
[Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
- Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church
HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Section Four: Challenging and Changing Systemic Gender Injustice
- What’s Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement?
Marie M. Fortune, Faith Trust Institute
- Femicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique
Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica
- Call to Accountability: Women’s Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum
Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica
- Doctrine of Discovery: a Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women
Dawn Martin-Hill, McMaster University
- Women’s Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice
Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College
Section Five: Future Movement—The Becoming of Women’s Studies in Religion
- Feminism, Religion, and the Digital World
Gina Messina, Ursuline College
- Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces Online
Krista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Minoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-politics of Democracy
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College
- Spiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence
Denise Starkey, The College of St. Scholastica
- Hope Now
Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Institute
- Resources for Clarification, Education and Action
Index
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