Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America [electronic resource] / edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether ; associate editor, Marie Cantlon.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keller, Rosemary Skinner
Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Cantlon, Marie
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Women and religion > North America > Encyclopedias.
Women > Religious life > North America > Encyclopedias.
Women > North America > Religious aspects > Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2006 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2006 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Integrating the worlds of women's religious experience in North America / Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • pt. 1. Approaches to the history of women and religion. Women and religion: methods of study and reflection / Rita M. Gross
  • Religions and modern feminism / Ann Braude
  • Gender and social roles / Susan Hill Lindley
  • North American women interpret scripture / J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell
  • Women's religious imagination / Mary Farrell Bednarowski
  • Social ethics, women, and religion / Marilyn J. Legge
  • The psychology of women's religious experience / Ann Belford Ulanov
  • Women's spiritual biography and autobiography / Rosemary Skinner Keller
  • pt. 2. Women in indigenous and African traditions. Native American creation stories / Laura Adams Weaver
  • Native American women and Christianity / Kim Stone
  • American Indian boarding schools / Andrea Smith
  • Appropriation of Native American religious traditions / Andrea Smith
  • Religious exchange in Aframerindian life / Patrick Neal Minges
  • Women in African Caribbean religious traditions / Dianne M. Stewart
  • pt. 3. Catholicism. Women in North American Catholicism / Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Religious women in colonial Mexico / Kathleen Ann Myers
  • Godmothers and goddaughters: Catholic women in colonial New France and New England / Lisa J.M. Poirier
  • American Catholic women, 1820-1900: from the Jacksonian period to the progressive era / Holly Folk
  • African American Catholic women / Cecilia A. Moore
  • Latina popular Catholicism / Jeanette Rodriguez
  • Asian and Pacific American Catholic women / Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada
  • American Catholic women, 1900-1965 / Debra Campbell
  • American Catholic women since Vatican Council II / Mary Jo Weaver
  • Determined builders, powerful voices: women and Catholicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Canada / Carolyn Sharp
  • pt. 4. Protestantism. Colonial period. Women and Protestantism in colonial New England / Rebecca Larson
  • Protestant women in the Mid-Atlantic colonies / Alison Duncan Hirsch
  • Southern colonial Protestant women / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
  • Protestantism in British North America (Canada) / Marilyn Färdig Whiteley
  • Denominational traditions. Women and African American denominations / Sandy Dwayne Martin
  • Women of Anabaptist traditions / Marlene Epp
  • Women in the American Episcopal Church / Fredrica Harris Thompsett
  • Women in the Anglican Church in Canada / Sharon Anne Cook
  • Baptist women / Carolyn D. Blevins
  • Christian Church/Disciples of Christ tradition and women / Loretta M. Long
  • Women and Lutheranism / Mary Todd
  • Methodist women / Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers
  • Quaker women in North America / Mary Van Vleck Garman
  • Women in Reformed churches / Rebecca Button Prichard
  • Presbyterian women in America / Lois A. Boyd
  • Women in the United Church of Canada / Phyllis D. Airhart
  • Women in the United Church of Christ / Barbara Brown Zikmund
  • Women in the Unitarian Universalist movement / Cynthia Grant Tucker
  • Evangelical Protestantism. Women in Pentecostalism / Edith Blumhofer
  • Women in the Salvation Army / Diane Winston
  • Revivalism / Priscilla Pope-Levison
  • Holiness movements / Nancy A. Hardesty
  • Sanctified Church(es) / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
  • Fundamentalism / Margaret L. Bendroth
  • America's evangelical women: more than wives and mothers: reformers, ministers, and leaders / Jane Harris
  • Charismatic movement / R. Marie Griffith
  • Euro-American evangelical feminism / Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner
  • Hispanic Protestantism. U.S. Latina evangélicas / Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero
  • Race and gender in Latina experience / Teresa Chávez Sauceda
  • Hispanic Pentecostal women / Gastón Espinosa
  • Asian Protestantism. Asian Pacific American Protestant women / Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim
  • pt. 5. Women in Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox traditions. Women in Orthodox Christian traditions / Demetra Velisarios Jaquet
  • Oriental Orthodox traditions and the Armenian Apostolic Church / Barbara J. Merguerian
  • An orthodox perspective on feminist theology / Valerie A. Karras
  • pt. 6. Judaism. Reform Judaism / Karla Goldman
  • Tradition and change: finding the right balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism / Shuly Rubin Schwartz
  • Orthodox Jewish women in America: diversity, challenges, and coming of age / Blu Greenberg
  • Jewish women and ritual / Hasia R. Diner
  • Jewish law and gender / Norma Baumel Joseph
  • Anti-Semitism / Riv-Ellen Prell
  • pt. 7. Islam. Islam, women, and the struggle for identity in North America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
  • African American Muslim women / Aminah Beverly McCloud
  • Women, Islam, and mosques / Ingrid Mattson
  • Women's issues in American Islam / Jane I. Smith
  • pt. 8. Asian religions. Buddhism. Origins of Buddhism in North America / Lori Pierce
  • Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese / Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson
  • The way of the elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana movement / Sandy Boucher
  • Tibetan Buddhism / Amy Lavine
  • Hinduism. Hinduism in North America including emerging issues / Vasudha Narayanan
  • New Hindu movements / Kathleen M. Erndl
  • Chinese religions. Religions of Chinese immigrant communities and Chinese religions practiced in North America by non-Chinese people / Vivian-Lee Nyitray
  • Japanese religions. Religions of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American communities / Ruth M. Tabrah
  • Other religions. Women and Jainism in North America / Anne Vallely
  • Sikh women in North America / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
  • pt. 9. Newer religious movements. Women in communitarian societies / Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Mormon women / Claudia L. Bushman
  • Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Rita M. Lester
  • Vodou, spiritism, and Santería: hybridity and identity in Caribbean religions / Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi
  • Christian Science / Sarah Gardner Cunningham
  • Clara Evans Muhammad: pioneering social activism in the original Nation of Islam / Debra Mubashir Majeed
  • Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age movements / Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft
  • Spiritualism / Cathy Gutierrez
  • Women in the North American Baha'i community / Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger
  • Women in new religious movements since the 1960s / Susan J. Palmer
  • Women in Jewish renewal / Reena Sigman Friedman
  • Ancient matriarchies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist thought / Cynthia Eller
  • Women in the Wiccan religion and contemporary paganism / Selena Fox
  • pt. 10. Multidenominational movements. The Deaconess movement / Cynthia A. Jurisson
  • Missionary movement. Protestant women missionaries: foreign and home / Dana L. Robert
  • American Catholic women missionaries: 1870-2000 / Angelyn Dries
  • Women's societies. Leadership and community building in Protestant women's organizations / Rosemary Skinner Keller
  • "Lifting as we climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW) / National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) / Marcia Y. Riggs
  • Religious education. Women and catechetics in the Roman Catholic tradition / Mary L. Putrow
  • Catholic women's colleges in the United States / Tracy Schier
  • Conservative Christian strategies in education / James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray
  • Women and Jewish education / David E. Kaufman
  • Protestant Sunday schools and religious education / Virginia Lieson Brereton
  • Protestant women's colleges in the United States / Kathleen S. Hurty
  • Women in theological education / Jeanne P. McLean
  • When women enter the classroom: theory, theology, and teaching / Barbara J. Blodgett
  • The ordination movement. Protestant women's ordination movement / Barbara Brown Zikmund
  • The women's ordination movement in the Roman Catholic Church / Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau
  • Jewish women's ordination / Pamela S. Nadell
  • Protestant female preaching in the United States / Catherine A. Brekus
  • Music and the arts. Women hymn writers / Edith Blumhofer
  • African American hymnody / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
  • Women's novels and religion, 1780-1900 / Diane Capitani
  • Women, religion, and American film / Judith Weisenfeld
  • pt. 11. Women, religion, and social reform. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant social reform movements in the United States / Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford
  • Antislavery, abolitionism / Anna M. Speicher
  • Women and peace movements in North America / Valarie Ziegler
  • Settlement House movement / Eleanor J. Stebner
  • Social Gospel / Susan Hill Lindley
  • Women and Garveyism / Anthea D. Butler
  • Civil rights movement / Rosetta E. Ross
  • Engaged Buddhist women / Judith Simmer-Brown
  • Women's freedom and reproductive rights: the core fear of patriarchy / Frances Kissling
  • Ecofeminism / Heather Eaton
  • Jewish women's service organizations / Dianne Ashton
  • Abundant life for all: the Young Women's Christian Association / Janine M. Denomme
  • Women and religion in the borderlands / Daisy L. Machado
  • Turning off the taps: public policy in Canada / Lois M. Wilson
  • The public leadership of women of faith: entrepreneurs, social alchemists, and bearers of religion in the world / Katharine R. Henderson
  • pt. 12. Women-centered theology. Womanist theology / Emilie M. Townes
  • Euro-American feminist theology / Lucy Tatman
  • Las Hermanas: Latinas and religious / political activism / Lara Medina
  • Mujerista theology / Ada María Isasi-Díaz
  • Latina Roman Catholic theologies / Nancy Pineda-Madrid
  • Rebirth of the religion of the goddess / Carol P. Christ
  • Women's issues in contemporary North American Buddhism / Rita M. Gross
  • Lesbian and bisexual Issues in religion / Mary E. Hunt
  • Jewish feminism / Judith Plaskow
  • The case for native liberation theology / Andrea Smith
  • pt. 13. Contemporary women's issues in religion. Women-church / Mary E. Hunt
  • New feminist ritual / Janet Walton
  • Women and healing in North America / Susan M. Setta
  • Women in Protestant church societies and bureaucracies / Susan M. Hartmann
  • Plural religious identities and households / Rita DasGupta Sherma
  • Women's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations / Mary C. Boys
  • Canadian women's religious issues / Tracy J. Trothen
  • Inclusive language / Susan Thistlewaite
  • New religious right / Laura R. Olson
  • Sexuality and the Black church / Kelly Brown Douglas
  • Girlfriend theology: adolescent girls and faith communities / Dori Grinenko Baker.