Women and new and Africana religions / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise C. Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo, editors.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women and religion in the world.
Other Authors: Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian
Martin, Darnise C.
Olademo, Oyeronke
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Women and religion in the world.
Subjects:
Women > Religious life.
Women and religion.
Physical Description:xv, 336 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo
  • Women, family, and environment
  • "That girl is poison" : white supremacy, anxiety, and the conflation of women and food in the nation of Islam / Stephen C. Finley and Margarita L. Simon
  • Receiving, embodying, and sharing "divine wisdom" : women in the nation of gods and earths / Felicia M. Miyakawa
  • Socioeconomics, politics, and authority
  • The living shrine : life and meaning in Oyotunji / Yeyefini Efunbolade
  • Vodou : a heritage of power / Susheel Bibbs
  • Mind, body, and spirit
  • Serving the spirits, healing the person : women in Afro-Brazilian religions / Kelly E. Hayes
  • Sacred dance-drumming : reciprocation and contention within African belief systems in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay area / Halifu Osumare
  • Sexuality, power, and vulnerability
  • To have and to hold : possession performance in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha / Katherine Hagedorn
  • African descendent women and religion : diaspora in Oriente Cuba / Jualynne E. Dodson
  • Religion and women's sexuality in Africa : the intersection of power and vulnerability / Oyeronke Olademo
  • Women, worldview, and religious practice
  • A religion of the interstices : Asian Pacific American women and multiple religious practices / Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier
  • Diana's grove : an emergent, integrative spiritual movement / Susan E. Hill, John K. Simmons, and Cynthea Jones
  • The good wife : the religious experience of women in scientology / Dawn L. Hutchinson
  • Senses of place : women greening communities / Kimberly Whitney
  • African women in traditional religions : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila.