Gender, Genre and Religion Feminist Reflections [Paperback]

Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception.

Gender, Genre and Religionis the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to plot the path forward. This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles.

Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors.

The sensitive and original essays inGender, Genre and Religionwill be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

Table of Contents for
Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, edited by Morny Joy and Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay

Foreward

Preface

About the Authors

I. Introduction

Introduction | Morny Joy and Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay

II. Setting the Theme

Chapter 1. Framing Discourse for the Future | Mary Gerhart

III. Gendered Perspectives

Chapter 2. Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics | Eileen Schuller

Chapter 3. The Feminist Challenge to Judaism | Norma Baumel Joseph

Chapter 4. Feminist Theology | Pamela Dickey Young

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