{"product_id":"the-rowman-littlefield-handbook-of-women-s-studies-in-religion-9781538154441","title":"The Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Handbook of Women’s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabia Harris, Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor’s Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection One: A Firmly Fluid Foundation for Women’s Studies in Religion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eA Work in Progress—Feminist Scholarship Shaping God’s Image—Then and Now \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Inclusive Language of God and Why It Matters for Women’s Studies in Religion\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eYudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eDoing Women’s Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWomen’s Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and At the Borders: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions Through Art and Activism\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Two: Ethical Connections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhere Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eReconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeminist Theological and Ethical Responses to Testimonial Injustice\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandace Y. Jordan, Princeton, PhD candidate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eDo Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Healthcare’s Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnjeanette M. Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Three: Religious Diversity and Women’s Studies in Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eConstructing Wicca as ‘Women’s Religion’: A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Mueller, Santa Clara University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFor All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eIntroducing Asian Trans Pacific American Feminist Theology\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeun-Joo Christine Pae, Dennison University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e“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\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWomen in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eYudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuslimah Theology and Praxis\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Zayn Kassam, Pomona College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eHomiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Four: Challenging and Changing Systemic Gender Injustice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat’s Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie M. Fortune, Faith Trust Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFemicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eCall to Accountability: Women’s Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eDoctrine of Discovery: a Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn Martin-Hill, McMaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWomen’s Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Five: Future Movement—The Becoming of Women’s Studies in Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeminism, Religion, and the Digital World\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eGina Messina, Ursuline College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eDocumenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces Online\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eMinoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-politics of Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eSpiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Starkey, The College of St. Scholastica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eHope Now\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eResources for Clarification, Education and Action\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041200865623,"sku":"9781538154441","price":101.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538154441.jpg?v=1750949333","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rowman-littlefield-handbook-of-women-s-studies-in-religion-9781538154441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}