Women and indigenous religions /
Women and indigenous religions /
Sylvia Marcos, editor.
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, (c)2010.
- x, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
- Women and religion in the world .
- Women and religion in the world. .
Perspectives of indigenous religious traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Australia Women, family, and environment. Ngarrindjeri women's stories: Kungun and Yunnan Feminine rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru Socioeconimcis, politics, and authority. Indigenous spirituality, gender, and the politics of justice: voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas Authority and ritual in the caves of Tepoztlan, Mexico: women priestesses in popular religion Body, mind, and spirit. Dressing up the spirits: costumes, cross-dressing, and incarnation in Korea and Vietnam Women and sacred medicines among the Khasis in the highlands of northeast India The not-so-subtle body in dais' birth imagery Sexuality, power and vulnerability. Ritual gendered relationships: kinship, marriage, mastery, and machi modes of personhood Sexuality and ritual: indigenous women recreating their identities in contemporary Mexico Women, world view, and religious practice. Drawing the connections: Mayan women's quest for a gendered spirituality Decolonizing our spirits: cultural knowledge and indigenous healing Diane Bell Frederique Apffel-Marglin Sylvia Marcos Ana Maria Salazar Peralta Laurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen Darilyn Syiem Jane Chawla Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Nuvia Balderrama Vara Morna Macleod Renee Linklater. Introduction:
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
9780275991579 0275991571 9780313082733 0313082731
2010006508
Women and religion.
Women--Religious life.
Indigenous peoples--Religion.
BL458.W664 2010
Perspectives of indigenous religious traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Australia Women, family, and environment. Ngarrindjeri women's stories: Kungun and Yunnan Feminine rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru Socioeconimcis, politics, and authority. Indigenous spirituality, gender, and the politics of justice: voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas Authority and ritual in the caves of Tepoztlan, Mexico: women priestesses in popular religion Body, mind, and spirit. Dressing up the spirits: costumes, cross-dressing, and incarnation in Korea and Vietnam Women and sacred medicines among the Khasis in the highlands of northeast India The not-so-subtle body in dais' birth imagery Sexuality, power and vulnerability. Ritual gendered relationships: kinship, marriage, mastery, and machi modes of personhood Sexuality and ritual: indigenous women recreating their identities in contemporary Mexico Women, world view, and religious practice. Drawing the connections: Mayan women's quest for a gendered spirituality Decolonizing our spirits: cultural knowledge and indigenous healing Diane Bell Frederique Apffel-Marglin Sylvia Marcos Ana Maria Salazar Peralta Laurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen Darilyn Syiem Jane Chawla Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Nuvia Balderrama Vara Morna Macleod Renee Linklater. Introduction:
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
9780275991579 0275991571 9780313082733 0313082731
2010006508
Women and religion.
Women--Religious life.
Indigenous peoples--Religion.
BL458.W664 2010