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Women and Religious Traditions Paperback – 16 October 2014
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Using a critical feminist lens, this text explores the roles and interactions of women within major world faiths. For each tradition, the text examines the history and status of women, family structures, sexuality, and social change, as well as texts, rituals, and interpretations by and for women.
- ISBN-100199006199
- ISBN-13978-0199006199
- Edition3rd
- PublisherOxford University Press Canada
- Publication date16 October 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions22.61 x 1.78 x 14.99 cm
- Print length416 pages
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Excellent, cutting-edge scholarship, compellingly written and made accessible to undergraduates. . . . This is a top-notch book."
― Michele Murray, Bishop's University
Extremely readable. . . . An excellent introduction to the topic. . . . The chapters do a very good job introducing students to the religious tradition in question, and the structure of each chapter, despite the different authors, helps the student of comparative religion to analyze the information."
― Ariana Patey, Memorial University of Newfoundland
― Michele Murray, Bishop's University
Extremely readable. . . . An excellent introduction to the topic. . . . The chapters do a very good job introducing students to the religious tradition in question, and the structure of each chapter, despite the different authors, helps the student of comparative religion to analyze the information."
― Ariana Patey, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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"Excellent, cutting-edge scholarship, compellingly written and made accessible to undergraduates. . . . This is a top-notch book." --Michele Murray, Bishop's University "Extremely readable. . . . An excellent introduction to the topic. . . . The chapters do a very good job introducing students to the religious tradition in question, and the structure of each chapter, despite the different authors, helps the student of comparative religion to analyze the information." --Ariana Patey, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Uses a critical feminist lens to explore the roles and interactions of women with major world faith traditions.
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Leona M. Anderson is professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Regina. Her research interests include Sanskrit literature, classical and popular Hinduism, Hindu ritual, and iconography. Her publications include the Vasantotsava: Indian Spring Festival, Text and Contexts (New Delhi: DK Printworld, 1993/4); The Ganesh Festival (51 mins., colour video [vhs] documentary, 1999 and 2009), and The Orishas of Cuba (dvd, 2008). Her current research focuses on Santeria traditions in Cuba and the Ashtavinayakas in India. Pamela Dickey Young is professor of religious studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She is author of many books and articles on feminist theology, women and religion, and religion and sexuality. Her current research focuses on religion, gender, and sexuality among youth in Canada. Her most recent book is Religion, Sex and Politics: Christian Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in Canada (Fernwood Publishing, 2012).
About the Author
Leona M. Anderson is professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Regina. Her research interests include Sanskrit literature, classical and popular Hinduism, Hindu ritual, and iconography. Her publications include the Vasantotsava: Indian Spring Festival, Text and Contexts (New Delhi: DK Printworld, 1993/4); The Ganesh Festival (51 mins., colour video [vhs] documentary, 1999 and 2009), and The Orishas of Cuba (dvd, 2008). Her current research focuses on Santeria traditions in Cuba and the Ashtavinayakas in India. Pamela Dickey Young is professor of religious studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She is author of many books and articles on feminist theology, women and religion, and religion and sexuality. Her current research focuses on religion, gender, and sexuality among youth in Canada. Her most recent book is Religion, Sex and Politics: Christian Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in Canada (Fernwood Publishing, 2012).
Product details
- Publisher : Oxford University Press Canada; 3rd edition (16 October 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0199006199
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199006199
- Dimensions : 22.61 x 1.78 x 14.99 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 469,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 77 in Comparative Religion Textbooks
- 258 in Gender Studies Textbooks
- 426 in Linguistics Textbooks
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K. Eoghan Schwope
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Informative, but requires outside fact-checking, and did little to actually speak to gender roles
Reviewed in the United States on 5 January 2016Verified Purchase
This is required reading for a class I registered for in Religious Studies. I already read the book before the semester began and I think that had I discovered the book on my own would have found it interesting. As described it is written from a feminist perspective so it mostly kvetches about the fact that throughout history women's points of view and contributions to history in various religious cultures are largely absent. I did have to do some follow up reading on various points made in some of the chapters where assertions were made or not fully fleshed out. I really hoped to glean more about the roles women have in religious traditions -- read: gender roles -- as the title misleads one to believe the book tell. The book's organization is also poorly executed, going from oldest religion to newest religion. It would have been better to organize it based on the relationships of the cultures, rather than on their chronology of existence. For example, Chapter 1 is Hinduism, Chapter 2 is Judaism, then much later in the book Buddhism is discussed and later still Sikhism. And actually that is how I read the book. It didn't make sense to me to read it in the order it was published.
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