TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marcos,Sylvia
TI  - Women and indigenous religions
T2  - Women and religion in the world
SN  - 9780275991579
AV  - BL458.M321.W664 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Religion
N1  - 2; 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; 2
N2  - 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
ER  -