Description
Winner of the American Historical Association's 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America harvests the fruits of 25 years of scholarship on the history and current state of women’s religious experience in North America. The result of a five-year project led by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether and funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Henry Luce Foundation, the encyclopedia marshals the talents of more than 150 scholars to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date description and analysis of women and religion in North America. The encyclopedia is interreligious, interracial, and multicultural and is aimed at a broad general audience.
Instead of hundreds of short entries, this encyclopedia features more than 145 longer essays that enable major themes to be developed more fully. The articles focus on institutions, movements, and ideas. The authors weave biographical sketches into their articles to give them a more personal and humanizing quality, and to recognize the women responsible for the gains made over the centuries. The essays demonstrate that neither the story of women nor the story of religion in North America can be accurately told unless the religious experience of women is integrated into the center of women’s and religious history.
These well-illustrated volumes will be an essential reference for all of those interested in the role of women in North America’s vibrant and complex religious life. |
Author Bio
Rosemary Skinner Keller is Professor Emeritus of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Rosemary Radford Ruether is the Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at the Graduate Theological Union of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. |
Reviews
". . . an excellent reference . . . ." —Feminist Collections
". . . while this resource does a commendable job of covering women's history in relation to specific religious traditions and movements, it goes a step beyond by also attending to issues of how women's religious commitments and affiliations have affected the larger society and culture of North America. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." —Choice
". . . a work that . . . truly encompass[es] the history of women and religion. . . . important piece of scholarship." —American Reference Books Annual 2007
". . . this three-volume work has much to offer students, scholars, and the general public who wish to explore the diversity and variety of women's experiences within their religious traditions." —American Catholic Studies , Spring 2009 |
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Table of Contents
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Introductory Essay: Integrating the Worlds of Women's Religious Experience in North America, Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether
Part I. 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
Part II. 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
Part III. 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 19th and 20th Century Quebec and Canada, Carolyn Sharp
Part IV. 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
The 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
The 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
Part V. 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
Part VI. 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
Part VII. 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
Part VIII. 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: 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
Women and Jainism in North America, Anne Vallely
Sikh Women in North America, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Part IX. 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 19th and 20th Century Feminist Thought, Cynthia Eller
Women in the Wiccan Religion and Contemporary Paganism, Selena Fox
Part X. Multidenominational Movements
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
The Protestant Women's Ordination Movement, Barbara Brown Zikmund
The Women's Ordination Movement in the Roman Catholic Church, Maureen Fiedler and Dolores C. 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
Part XI. Women, Religion, and Social Reform
19th and 20th 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
The Settlement House Movement, Eleanor J. Stebner
The Social Gospel, Susan Hill Lindley
Women and Garveyism, Anthea D. Butler
The 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
Part XII. 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
Part XIII. 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
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