Women and indigenous religions / [print]
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. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 9780313082733
2010006508
Women and religion. Women--Religious life. Indigenous peoples--Religion.