Women and indigenous religions / Sylvia Marcos, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Women and religion in the worldPublication details: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, (c)2010.Description: x, 256 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780275991579
- 0275991571
- 9780313082733
- 0313082731
- BL458.W664 2010
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Introduction: Perspectives of indigenous religious traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Australia Women, family, and environment. Ngarrindjeri women's stories: Kungun and Yunnan Diane Bell Feminine rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru Frederique Apffel-Marglin Socioeconimcis, politics, and authority. Indigenous spirituality, gender, and the politics of justice: voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas Sylvia Marcos Authority and ritual in the caves of Tepoztlan, Mexico: women priestesses in popular religion Ana Maria Salazar Peralta Body, mind, and spirit. Dressing up the spirits: costumes, cross-dressing, and incarnation in Korea and Vietnam Laurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen Women and sacred medicines among the Khasis in the highlands of northeast India Darilyn Syiem The not-so-subtle body in dais' birth imagery Jane Chawla Sexuality, power and vulnerability. Ritual gendered relationships: kinship, marriage, mastery, and machi modes of personhood Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Sexuality and ritual: indigenous women recreating their identities in contemporary Mexico Nuvia Balderrama Vara Women, world view, and religious practice. Drawing the connections: Mayan women's quest for a gendered spirituality Morna Macleod Decolonizing our spirits: cultural knowledge and indigenous healing Renee Linklater.
This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. --from publisher description
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