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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(November 2001)
Volume VI
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.
The Annual Review of Women in World Religions is polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional in its approach to the study of women and religion. It not only allows the comparative dimension to appear in bolder relief, but also helps to establish a dialogue between the two solitudes of h...(Read More) |
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(October 1999)
Volume V
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions represents a polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional approach to the study of women and religion, emphasizes the comparative dimension, and establishes a dialogue between the humanities and the social sciences. In this volume, contributors examine the concept of immanence in a wide variety of theological and cultural contexts.
Volume V includes the following contributions: ...(Read More) |
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Feminism and World Religions
(December 1998)
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Book
Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist perspective by leading women scholars. Feminism and World Religions contains chapters on Hinduism by Vasudha Narayanan, Buddhism by Rita M. Gross, Confucianism by Terry Woo, Taoism by Karen McLaughlin and Eva Wong, Judaism by E...(Read More) |
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(July 1996)
Volume IV
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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This forum discusses secularism, fundamentalism, feminism, and other contemporary trends impacting on women and religion.
This polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional approach to the study of women and religion emphasizes the comparative dimension and establishes a dialogue between the humanities and the social sciences.
Volume IV includes the following contributions: Our Mother R...(Read More) |
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(December 1993)
Volume III
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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Just as a mirror captures a large area within its small limit, this journal reflects the otherwise far-ranging and far-reaching phenomena that are categorized as "women and religion." The Annual Review of Women in World Religions has been conceived as a forum for the latest historical and anthropological research on women in all religions. It is also a form for discussion of contemporary trends, such as the influence of secularism, fundament...(Read More) |
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(November 1992)
Volume II. Heroic Women
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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This journal is polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional in its approach to the study of women and religion. It emphasizes the comparative dimension and establishes a dialogue between the humanities and the social sciences.
This volume, Heroic Women, contains essays by Katherine Hansen, Fan Pen Chen, Sheila McDonough, Nalini Devdas, Marcia K. Hermansen, representing a broad range of academic circles. |
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Over the Rainbow
(January 1992)
The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America
Paul Nathanson - Author
Katherine K. Young - Foreword by
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Over the Rainbow shows how Dorothy's passage from Kansas to Oz and back again recapitulates paradigmatic stories of both America and Christianity. Defining human identity on three symbolic levels (individual, collective, and cosmic), Nathanson shows that The Wizard of Oz has come to be a "secular myth."
"It is a most fascinating text reflecting an interest in the psychological, historical, sociological, and analytical approac...(Read More) |
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The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
(October 1991)
Volume I
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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This annual encourages the exploration of horizons and perspectives in women's studies not possible otherwise. It is not confined in scope to the traditional religions--it also includes new religious movements within its scope, while at the same time providing an outlet for specialized studies on women in traditional religions to reach a wider audience. It thus incorporates both the traditional and contemporary dimension.
This work grew out...(Read More) |
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Hindu Ethics
(July 1988)
Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia
Harold Coward - Editor
Julius Lipner - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Editor
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"Much attention has been given to the topic of duties in the Indian tradition. This work includes rights as well, as any competent ethical discussion must. The topic is highly significant for ethical dialogue, East and West, and for our closer understanding of the Indian religious tradition." -- Harold W. French, University of South Carolina
Modern Western approaches to India often have focused on metaphysics at...(Read More) |
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Women in World Religions
(April 1987)
Arvind Sharma - Editor
Katherine K. Young - Introduction
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This is a book by women about women in the religions of the world. It presents all the basic facts and ideological issues concerning the position of women in the major religious traditions of humanity: Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, and tribal religions.
A special feature of the book is its phenomenological approach, wherein scholars examine sacred textual materials. Each contributor not only studies h...(Read More) |
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