Women Saints in World Religions

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Women Saints in World Religions

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Arvind Sharma - Editor

SUNY Series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 256 pages

Release Date: September 2000

ISBN10: 0-7914-4619-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4619-5

Price: $32.95
Paperback - 256 pages

Release Date: September 2000

ISBN10: 0-7914-4620-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4620-1

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Summary

Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.

Women Saints in World Religions deepens our understanding of the concept of sainthood, brings to light original material, and presents the first comparative analysis of female sainthood. Using original sources, previously unavailable in English, the book describes the lives of figures considered "saintly" in world religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The implications of this material for the concept of sainthood and for 'women saints' as a cross-cultural category are examined.

"The stories in this book are a delightful song of praise to the accomplishments of women within traditional religions, despite the opposition they had to overcome to achieve what they did. One of its great beauties is that it brings formerly obscured or silenced stories to light. The women described here were strong willed, courageous women who rejected the narrow roles dictated to them by their traditions' leaders, and assumed leadership themselves in spiritual pathways that were usually closed to women. Although most of these stories date from the middle ages, they are 'new' to contemporary readers, because they were never included in the canonical stories of the heroes of traditional faiths." -- Laura E. Weed, The College of St. Rose

Arvind Sharma is Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. He is the editor of several books including, with Katherine K. Young, Feminism and World Religions.

Table of Contents

Preface

I. Introduction
Katherine K. Young

II. Dolce of Worms: Women Saints in Judaism
Judith R. Baskin

III. Reclaiming an Ancient Story: Baudonivia's Life of St. Radegund (circa 525–587)
Marie Anne Mayeski (with Jane Crawford)

IV. Muslim Sainthood, Women, and the Legend of Sayyida Nafisa
Valerie J. Hoffman

V. Janabai: A Woman Saint of India
Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

VI. Women Ch'an Masters: The Teacher Miao-tsung as Saint
Miriam Levering

VII. Pien Tung-hsüan: A Taoist Woman Saint of the T'ang Dynasty (618–907)
Suzanne Cahill

Index of Names
Index of Terms
Subject Index

Related Subjects

Religion
Women's Studies
Women in Religion

36348/36349(NE/DF/)

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