Women in Religion
Religion and Women in India
Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.
The Space of the Transnational
Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.
Singing the Goddess into Place
Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.
Horizons of Difference
Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.
Unruly Catholic Feminists
Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.
Hindu Pasts
Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.
Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality
Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.
Contesting Feminisms
Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives.
Asian Muslim Women
Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.
Women, Ritual, and Power
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.
Gendering Chinese Religion
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
Oshun's Daughters
Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.
Conceiving Identities
Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Buddhist Women and Social Justice
Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.
Female Ascetics in Hinduism
Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.
The Position of Women in Islam
Argues that Islamic law does not accord a lesser status to women and elaborates Muslim women's rights in a variety of areas.
The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.
What Men Owe to Women
Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.
Women Saints in World Religions
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.
Women Breaking Boundaries
Through memoir, interviews, and historical overview, chronicles the evolution in the U. S. of the Grail—an organization of Catholic lay women dedicated to restoring the Christian spirit to all aspects of life.
Coming into Communion
Explores the lives and religious imaginations of colonial women and the contributions they made to colonial religious discourse.
Uttering the Word
Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, an important but neglected Renaissance mystic.
The Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil
Simone Weil is one of the major religious writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a unique blend of spiritual experience, social concern, and philosophical theory. She had marvelous command of the Western ...