Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America /
Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America /
edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether ; associate editor, Marie Cantlon.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [(c)2006.]
- 1 online resource (ix, 1394 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Integrating the worlds of women's religious experience in North America / Women and religion: methods of study and reflection / Religions and modern feminism / Gender and social roles / North American women interpret scripture / Women's religious imagination / Social ethics, women, and religion / The psychology of women's religious experience / Women's spiritual biography and autobiography / Native American creation stories / Native American women and Christianity / American Indian boarding schools / Appropriation of Native American religious traditions / Religious exchange in Aframerindian life / Women in African Caribbean religious traditions / Women in North American Catholicism / Religious women in colonial Mexico / Godmothers and goddaughters: Catholic women in colonial New France and New England / American Catholic women, 1820-1900: from the Jacksonian period to the progressive era / African American Catholic women / Latina popular Catholicism / Asian and Pacific American Catholic women / American Catholic women, 1900-1965 / American Catholic women since Vatican Council II / Determined builders, powerful voices: women and Catholicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Canada / Women and Protestantism in colonial New England / Protestant women in the Mid-Atlantic colonies / Southern colonial Protestant women / Protestantism in British North America (Canada) / Women and African American denominations / Women of Anabaptist traditions / Women in the American Episcopal Church / Women in the Anglican Church in Canada / Baptist women / Christian Church/Disciples of Christ tradition and women / Women and Lutheranism / Methodist women / Quaker women in North America / Women in Reformed churches / Presbyterian women in America / Women in the United Church of Canada / Women in the United Church of Christ / Women in the Unitarian Universalist movement / Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Rita M. Gross -- Ann Braude -- Susan Hill Lindley -- J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell -- Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Marilyn J. Legge -- Ann Belford Ulanov -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Laura Adams Weaver -- Kim Stone -- Andrea Smith -- Andrea Smith -- Patrick Neal Minges -- Dianne M. Stewart -- Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Kathleen Ann Myers -- Lisa J.M. Poirier -- Holly Folk -- Cecilia A. Moore -- Jeanette Rodriguez -- Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada -- Debra Campbell -- Mary Jo Weaver -- Carolyn Sharp -- Rebecca Larson -- Alison Duncan Hirsch -- Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Marilyn Färdig Whiteley -- Sandy Dwayne Martin -- Marlene Epp -- Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- Sharon Anne Cook -- Carolyn D. Blevins -- Loretta M. Long -- Mary Todd -- Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers -- Mary Van Vleck Garman -- Rebecca Button Prichard -- Lois A. Boyd -- Phyllis D. Airhart -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Cynthia Grant Tucker. Women in Pentecostalism / Women in the Salvation Army / Revivalism / Holiness movements / Sanctified Church(es) / Fundamentalism / America's evangelical women: more than wives and mothers: reformers, ministers, and leaders / Charismatic movement / Euro-American evangelical feminism / U.S. Latina evangélicas / Race and gender in Latina experience / Hispanic Pentecostal women / Asian Pacific American Protestant women / Women in Orthodox Christian traditions / Oriental Orthodox traditions and the Armenian Apostolic Church / An orthodox perspective on feminist theology / Reform Judaism / Tradition and change: finding the right balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism / Orthodox Jewish women in America: diversity, challenges, and coming of age / Jewish women and ritual / Jewish law and gender / Anti-Semitism / Islam, women, and the struggle for identity in North America / African American Muslim women / Women, Islam, and mosques / Women's issues in American Islam / Origins of Buddhism in North America / Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese / The way of the elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana movement / Tibetan Buddhism / Hinduism in North America including emerging issues / New Hindu movements / Religions of Chinese immigrant communities and Chinese religions practiced in North America by non-Chinese people / Religions of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American communities / Women and Jainism in North America / Sikh women in North America / Edith Blumhofer -- Diane Winston -- Priscilla Pope-Levison -- Nancy A. Hardesty -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Margaret L. Bendroth -- Jane Harris -- R. Marie Griffith -- Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner -- Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero -- Teresa Chávez Sauceda -- Gastón Espinosa -- Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim -- Demetra Velisarios Jaquet -- Barbara J. Merguerian -- Valerie A. Karras -- Karla Goldman -- Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Blu Greenberg -- Hasia R. Diner -- Norma Baumel Joseph -- Riv-Ellen Prell -- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Ingrid Mattson -- Jane I. Smith -- Lori Pierce -- Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson -- Sandy Boucher -- Amy Lavine -- Vasudha Narayanan -- Kathleen M. Erndl -- Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Ruth M. Tabrah -- Anne Vallely -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. Women in communitarian societies / Mormon women / Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Vodou, spiritism, and Santería: hybridity and identity in Caribbean religions / Christian Science / Clara Evans Muhammad: pioneering social activism in the original Nation of Islam / Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age movements / Spiritualism / Women in the North American Baha'i community / Women in new religious movements since the 1960s / Women in Jewish renewal / Ancient matriarchies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist thought / Women in the Wiccan religion and contemporary paganism / The Deaconess movement / Protestant women missionaries: foreign and home / American Catholic women missionaries: 1870-2000 / Leadership and community building in Protestant women's organizations / "Lifting as we climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW) / Women and catechetics in the Roman Catholic tradition / Catholic women's colleges in the United States / Conservative Christian strategies in education / Women and Jewish education / Protestant Sunday schools and religious education / Protestant women's colleges in the United States / Women in theological education / When women enter the classroom: theory, theology, and teaching / Protestant women's ordination movement / The women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church / Jewish women's ordination / Protestant female preaching in the United States / Music and the arts -- Women hymn writers / African American hymnody / Women's novels and religion, 1780-1900 / Women, religion, and American film / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Claudia L. Bushman -- Rita M. Lester -- Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi -- Sarah Gardner Cunningham -- Debra Mubashir Majeed -- Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft -- Cathy Gutierrez -- Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger -- Susan J. Palmer -- Reena Sigman Friedman -- Cynthia Eller -- Selena Fox -- Cynthia A. Jurisson -- Dana L. Robert -- Angelyn Dries -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) / Marcia Y. Riggs -- Mary L. Putrow -- Tracy Schier -- James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray -- David E. Kaufman -- Virginia Lieson Brereton -- Kathleen S. Hurty -- Jeanne P. McLean -- Barbara J. Blodgett -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau -- Pamela S. Nadell -- Catherine A. Brekus -- Edith Blumhofer -- Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Diane Capitani -- Judith Weisenfeld. Women, religion, and social reform -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant social reform movements in the United States / Antislavery, abolitionism / Women and peace movements in North America / Settlement House movement / Social Gospel / Women and Garveyism / Civil rights movement / Engaged Buddhist women / Women's freedom and reproductive rights: the core fear of patriarchy / Ecofeminism / Jewish women's service organizations / Abundant life for all: the Young Women's Christian Association / Women and religion in the borderlands / Turning off the taps: public policy in Canada / The public leadership of women of faith: entrepreneurs, social alchemists, and bearers of religion in the world / Womanist theology / Euro-American feminist theology / Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious / Mujerista theology / Latina Roman Catholic theologies / Rebirth of the religion of the goddess / Women's issues in contemporary North American Buddhism / Lesbian and bisexual Issues in religion / Jewish feminism / The case for native liberation theology / Women-church / New feminist ritual / Women and healing in North America / Women in Protestant church societies and bureaucracies / Plural religious identities and households / Women's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations / Canadian women's religious issues / Inclusive language / New religious right / Sexuality and the Black church / Girlfriend theology: adolescent girls and faith communities / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford -- Anna M. Speicher -- Valarie Ziegler -- Eleanor J. Stebner -- Susan Hill Lindley -- Anthea D. Butler -- Rosetta E. Ross -- Judith Simmer-Brown -- Frances Kissling -- Heather Eaton -- Dianne Ashton -- Janine M. Denomme -- Daisy L. Machado -- Lois M. Wilson -- Katharine R. Henderson -- Emilie M. Townes -- Lucy Tatman -- political activism / Lara Medina -- Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Nancy Pineda-Madrid -- Carol P. Christ -- Rita M. Gross -- Mary E. Hunt -- Judith Plaskow -- Andrea Smith -- Mary E. Hunt -- Janet Walton -- Susan M. Setta -- Susan M. Hartmann -- Rita DasGupta Sherma -- Mary C. Boys -- Tracy J. Trothen -- Susan Thistlewaite -- Laura R. Olson -- Kelly Brown Douglas -- Dori Grinenko Baker.
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
0253111706 9780253111708 0253346851 9780253346858
Women and religion--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious life--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious aspects--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious aspects--Encyclopedias.
Electronic Books.
BL458
Includes bibliographies and index.
Integrating the worlds of women's religious experience in North America / Women and religion: methods of study and reflection / Religions and modern feminism / Gender and social roles / North American women interpret scripture / Women's religious imagination / Social ethics, women, and religion / The psychology of women's religious experience / Women's spiritual biography and autobiography / Native American creation stories / Native American women and Christianity / American Indian boarding schools / Appropriation of Native American religious traditions / Religious exchange in Aframerindian life / Women in African Caribbean religious traditions / Women in North American Catholicism / Religious women in colonial Mexico / Godmothers and goddaughters: Catholic women in colonial New France and New England / American Catholic women, 1820-1900: from the Jacksonian period to the progressive era / African American Catholic women / Latina popular Catholicism / Asian and Pacific American Catholic women / American Catholic women, 1900-1965 / American Catholic women since Vatican Council II / Determined builders, powerful voices: women and Catholicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Canada / Women and Protestantism in colonial New England / Protestant women in the Mid-Atlantic colonies / Southern colonial Protestant women / Protestantism in British North America (Canada) / Women and African American denominations / Women of Anabaptist traditions / Women in the American Episcopal Church / Women in the Anglican Church in Canada / Baptist women / Christian Church/Disciples of Christ tradition and women / Women and Lutheranism / Methodist women / Quaker women in North America / Women in Reformed churches / Presbyterian women in America / Women in the United Church of Canada / Women in the United Church of Christ / Women in the Unitarian Universalist movement / Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Rita M. Gross -- Ann Braude -- Susan Hill Lindley -- J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell -- Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Marilyn J. Legge -- Ann Belford Ulanov -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Laura Adams Weaver -- Kim Stone -- Andrea Smith -- Andrea Smith -- Patrick Neal Minges -- Dianne M. Stewart -- Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Kathleen Ann Myers -- Lisa J.M. Poirier -- Holly Folk -- Cecilia A. Moore -- Jeanette Rodriguez -- Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada -- Debra Campbell -- Mary Jo Weaver -- Carolyn Sharp -- Rebecca Larson -- Alison Duncan Hirsch -- Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Marilyn Färdig Whiteley -- Sandy Dwayne Martin -- Marlene Epp -- Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- Sharon Anne Cook -- Carolyn D. Blevins -- Loretta M. Long -- Mary Todd -- Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers -- Mary Van Vleck Garman -- Rebecca Button Prichard -- Lois A. Boyd -- Phyllis D. Airhart -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Cynthia Grant Tucker. Women in Pentecostalism / Women in the Salvation Army / Revivalism / Holiness movements / Sanctified Church(es) / Fundamentalism / America's evangelical women: more than wives and mothers: reformers, ministers, and leaders / Charismatic movement / Euro-American evangelical feminism / U.S. Latina evangélicas / Race and gender in Latina experience / Hispanic Pentecostal women / Asian Pacific American Protestant women / Women in Orthodox Christian traditions / Oriental Orthodox traditions and the Armenian Apostolic Church / An orthodox perspective on feminist theology / Reform Judaism / Tradition and change: finding the right balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism / Orthodox Jewish women in America: diversity, challenges, and coming of age / Jewish women and ritual / Jewish law and gender / Anti-Semitism / Islam, women, and the struggle for identity in North America / African American Muslim women / Women, Islam, and mosques / Women's issues in American Islam / Origins of Buddhism in North America / Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese / The way of the elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana movement / Tibetan Buddhism / Hinduism in North America including emerging issues / New Hindu movements / Religions of Chinese immigrant communities and Chinese religions practiced in North America by non-Chinese people / Religions of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American communities / Women and Jainism in North America / Sikh women in North America / Edith Blumhofer -- Diane Winston -- Priscilla Pope-Levison -- Nancy A. Hardesty -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Margaret L. Bendroth -- Jane Harris -- R. Marie Griffith -- Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner -- Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero -- Teresa Chávez Sauceda -- Gastón Espinosa -- Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim -- Demetra Velisarios Jaquet -- Barbara J. Merguerian -- Valerie A. Karras -- Karla Goldman -- Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Blu Greenberg -- Hasia R. Diner -- Norma Baumel Joseph -- Riv-Ellen Prell -- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Ingrid Mattson -- Jane I. Smith -- Lori Pierce -- Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson -- Sandy Boucher -- Amy Lavine -- Vasudha Narayanan -- Kathleen M. Erndl -- Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Ruth M. Tabrah -- Anne Vallely -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. Women in communitarian societies / Mormon women / Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Vodou, spiritism, and Santería: hybridity and identity in Caribbean religions / Christian Science / Clara Evans Muhammad: pioneering social activism in the original Nation of Islam / Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age movements / Spiritualism / Women in the North American Baha'i community / Women in new religious movements since the 1960s / Women in Jewish renewal / Ancient matriarchies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist thought / Women in the Wiccan religion and contemporary paganism / The Deaconess movement / Protestant women missionaries: foreign and home / American Catholic women missionaries: 1870-2000 / Leadership and community building in Protestant women's organizations / "Lifting as we climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW) / Women and catechetics in the Roman Catholic tradition / Catholic women's colleges in the United States / Conservative Christian strategies in education / Women and Jewish education / Protestant Sunday schools and religious education / Protestant women's colleges in the United States / Women in theological education / When women enter the classroom: theory, theology, and teaching / Protestant women's ordination movement / The women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church / Jewish women's ordination / Protestant female preaching in the United States / Music and the arts -- Women hymn writers / African American hymnody / Women's novels and religion, 1780-1900 / Women, religion, and American film / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Claudia L. Bushman -- Rita M. Lester -- Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi -- Sarah Gardner Cunningham -- Debra Mubashir Majeed -- Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft -- Cathy Gutierrez -- Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger -- Susan J. Palmer -- Reena Sigman Friedman -- Cynthia Eller -- Selena Fox -- Cynthia A. Jurisson -- Dana L. Robert -- Angelyn Dries -- Rosemary Skinner Keller -- National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) / Marcia Y. Riggs -- Mary L. Putrow -- Tracy Schier -- James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray -- David E. Kaufman -- Virginia Lieson Brereton -- Kathleen S. Hurty -- Jeanne P. McLean -- Barbara J. Blodgett -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau -- Pamela S. Nadell -- Catherine A. Brekus -- Edith Blumhofer -- Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Diane Capitani -- Judith Weisenfeld. Women, religion, and social reform -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant social reform movements in the United States / Antislavery, abolitionism / Women and peace movements in North America / Settlement House movement / Social Gospel / Women and Garveyism / Civil rights movement / Engaged Buddhist women / Women's freedom and reproductive rights: the core fear of patriarchy / Ecofeminism / Jewish women's service organizations / Abundant life for all: the Young Women's Christian Association / Women and religion in the borderlands / Turning off the taps: public policy in Canada / The public leadership of women of faith: entrepreneurs, social alchemists, and bearers of religion in the world / Womanist theology / Euro-American feminist theology / Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious / Mujerista theology / Latina Roman Catholic theologies / Rebirth of the religion of the goddess / Women's issues in contemporary North American Buddhism / Lesbian and bisexual Issues in religion / Jewish feminism / The case for native liberation theology / Women-church / New feminist ritual / Women and healing in North America / Women in Protestant church societies and bureaucracies / Plural religious identities and households / Women's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations / Canadian women's religious issues / Inclusive language / New religious right / Sexuality and the Black church / Girlfriend theology: adolescent girls and faith communities / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford -- Anna M. Speicher -- Valarie Ziegler -- Eleanor J. Stebner -- Susan Hill Lindley -- Anthea D. Butler -- Rosetta E. Ross -- Judith Simmer-Brown -- Frances Kissling -- Heather Eaton -- Dianne Ashton -- Janine M. Denomme -- Daisy L. Machado -- Lois M. Wilson -- Katharine R. Henderson -- Emilie M. Townes -- Lucy Tatman -- political activism / Lara Medina -- Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Nancy Pineda-Madrid -- Carol P. Christ -- Rita M. Gross -- Mary E. Hunt -- Judith Plaskow -- Andrea Smith -- Mary E. Hunt -- Janet Walton -- Susan M. Setta -- Susan M. Hartmann -- Rita DasGupta Sherma -- Mary C. Boys -- Tracy J. Trothen -- Susan Thistlewaite -- Laura R. Olson -- Kelly Brown Douglas -- Dori Grinenko Baker.
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
0253111706 9780253111708 0253346851 9780253346858
Women and religion--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious life--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious aspects--North America--Encyclopedias.
Women--Religious aspects--Encyclopedias.
Electronic Books.
BL458