Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America ( 3 volume set)

Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Introduction: Integrating the Worlds of Women’sReligious Experience in North America......Page 26
Part I. Approaches to the History of Women and Religion......Page 50
Women and Religion: Methods of Study andReflection......Page 52
Religions and Modern Feminism......Page 60
Gender and Social Roles......Page 72
North American Women Interpret Scripture......Page 82
Women’s Religious Imagination......Page 94
Social Ethics, Women, and Religion......Page 101
The Psychology of Women’s Religious Experience......Page 111
Women’s Spiritual Biography and Autobiography......Page 117
Part II. Women in Indigenous and African Traditions......Page 130
Native American Creation Stories......Page 132
Native American Women and Christianity......Page 138
American Indian Boarding Schools......Page 146
Appropriation of Native American ReligiousTraditions......Page 151
Religious Exchange in Aframerindian Life......Page 158
Women in African Caribbean ReligiousTraditions......Page 165
Part III. Catholicism......Page 174
Women in North American Catholicism......Page 176
Religious Women in Colonial Mexico......Page 182
Godmothers and Goddaughters: Catholic Womenin Colonial New France and New England......Page 190
American Catholic Women, 1820–1900: Fromthe Jacksonian Period to the Progressive Era......Page 197
African American Catholic Women......Page 209
Latina Popular Catholicism......Page 217
Asian and Pacific American Catholic Women......Page 227
American Catholic Women, 1900–1965......Page 236
American Catholic Women since VaticanCouncil II......Page 249
Determined Builders, Powerful Voices: Womenand Catholicism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Quebec and Canada......Page 258
Part IV. Protestantism......Page 268
Women and Protestantism in Colonial NewEngland......Page 270
Protestant Women in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies......Page 277
Southern Colonial Protestant Women......Page 285
Protestantism in British North America (Canada)......Page 291
Women and African American Denominations......Page 299
Women of Anabaptist Traditions......Page 311
Women in the American Episcopal Church......Page 318
Women in the Anglican Church in Canada......Page 328
Baptist Women......Page 334
Christian Church/Disciples of Christ Traditionand Women......Page 345
Women and Lutheranism......Page 356
Methodist Women......Page 368
Quaker Women in North America......Page 378
Women in Reformed Churches......Page 390
Presbyterian Women in America......Page 401
Women in the United Church of Canada......Page 410
Women in the United Church of Christ......Page 417
Women in the Unitarian Universalist Movement......Page 429
Women in Pentecostalism......Page 443
Women in the Salvation Army......Page 456
Revivalism......Page 465
Holiness Movements......Page 473
The Sanctified Church(es)......Page 479
Fundamentalism......Page 488
America’s Evangelical Women: More than Wivesand Mothers—Reformers, Ministers, and Leaders......Page 496
The Charismatic Movement......Page 506
Euro-American Evangelical Feminism......Page 516
U.S. Latina Evange´licas......Page 526
Race and Gender in Latina Experience......Page 533
Hispanic Pentecostal Women......Page 541
Asian Pacific American Protestant Women......Page 547
Part V. Women in Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Traditions......Page 556
Women in Orthodox Christian Traditions......Page 558
Oriental Orthodox Traditions and the ArmenianApostolic Church......Page 567
An Orthodox Perspective on Feminist Theology......Page 572
Part VI. Judaism......Page 580
Reform Judaism......Page 582
Tradition and Change—Finding theRight Balance: Conservative andReconstructionist Judaism......Page 593
Orthodox Jewish Women in America: Diversity,Challenges, and Coming of Age......Page 603
Jewish Women and Ritual......Page 617
Jewish Law and Gender......Page 625
Anti-Semitism......Page 637
Part VII. Islam......Page 648
Islam, Women, and the Struggle for Identity inNorth America......Page 650
African American Muslim Women......Page 657
Women, Islam, and Mosques......Page 664
Women’s Issues in American Islam......Page 668
Part VIII. Asian Religions......Page 680
Origins of Buddhism in North America......Page 682
Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese,Korean, and Vietnamese......Page 688
The Way of the Elders: Theravada Buddhism,including the Vipassana Movement......Page 695
Tibetan Buddhism......Page 701
Hinduism in North America, including EmergingIssues......Page 708
New Hindu Movements......Page 715
Religions of Chinese ImmigrantCommunities and Chinese Religions Practicedin North America by Non-Chinese People......Page 722
Religions of Japanese Immigrants and JapaneseAmerican Communities......Page 729
Women and Jainism in North America......Page 737
Sikh Women in North America......Page 742
Part IX. Newer Religious Movements......Page 754
Women in Communitarian Societies......Page 756
Mormon Women......Page 767
Women in the Reorganized Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints......Page 777
Vodou, Spiritism, and Santerı´a: Hybridity andIdentity in Caribbean Religions......Page 781
Christian Science......Page 787
Clara Evans Muhammad: Pioneering SocialActivism in the Original Nation of Islam......Page 795
Theosophy, New Thought, and New AgeMovements......Page 802
Spiritualism......Page 817
Women in the North American Baha’iCommunity......Page 825
Women in New Religious Movements sincethe 1960s......Page 836
Women in Jewish Renewal......Page 846
Ancient Matriarchies in Nineteenth- andTwentieth-Century Feminist Thought......Page 853
Women in the Wiccan Religion andContemporary Paganism......Page 858
Part X. Multidenominational Movements......Page 868
The Deaconess Movement......Page 870
Protestant Women Missionaries:Foreign and Home......Page 883
American Catholic Women Missionaries,1870–2000......Page 892
Leadership and Community Building inProtestant Women’s Organizations......Page 900
“Lifting as We Climb”: National Association ofColored Women (NACW)/National Council ofNegro Women (NCNW)......Page 913
Women and Catechetics in the Roman CatholicTradition......Page 922
Catholic Women’s Colleges in the United States......Page 930
Conservative Christian Strategies in Education......Page 938
Women and Jewish Education......Page 945
Protestant Sunday Schools and ReligiousEducation......Page 955
Protestant Women’s Colleges in the United States......Page 961
Women in Theological Education......Page 972
When Women Enter the Classroom:Theory, Theology, and Teaching......Page 979
The Protestant Women’s Ordination Movement......Page 989
The Women’s Ordination Movement in theRoman Catholic Church......Page 1000
Jewish Women’s Ordination......Page 1009
Protestant Female Preaching in the United States......Page 1014
Women Hymn Writers......Page 1023
African American Hymnody......Page 1036
Women’s Novels and Religion, 1780–1900......Page 1049
Women, Religion, and American Film......Page 1059
Part XI. Women, Religion, and Social Reform......Page 1068
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century ProtestantSocial Reform Movements in the United States......Page 1070
Antislavery, Abolitionism......Page 1087
Women and Peace Movements in North America......Page 1099
The Settlement House Movement......Page 1108
The Social Gospel......Page 1118
Women and Garveyism......Page 1125
The Civil Rights Movement......Page 1130
Engaged Buddhist Women......Page 1142
Women’s Freedom and Reproductive Rights:The Core Fear of Patriarchy......Page 1148
Ecofeminism......Page 1159
Jewish Women’s Service Organizations......Page 1166
Abundant Life for All: The Young Women’sChristian Association......Page 1176
Women and Religion in the Borderlands......Page 1183
Turning Off the Taps: Public Policy in Canada......Page 1190
The Public Leadership of Women of Faith:Entrepreneurs, Social Alchemists, and Bearers ofReligion in the World......Page 1198
Part XII. Women-Centered Theology......Page 1290
Women-Church......Page 1292
New Feminist Ritual......Page 1298
Women and Healing in North America......Page 1304
Women in Protestant Church Societies andBureaucracies......Page 1314
Plural Religious Identities and Households......Page 1319
Women’s Contributions to Jewish-ChristianRelations......Page 1325
Canadian Women’s Religious Issues......Page 1332
Inclusive Language......Page 1339
New Religious Right......Page 1344
Sexuality and the Black Church......Page 1349
Girlfriend Theology: Adolescent Girls and FaithCommunities......Page 1353
Womanist Theology......Page 1214
Euro-American Feminist Theology......Page 1222
Las Hermanas: Latinas and Religious/PoliticalActivism......Page 1230
Mujerista Theology......Page 1237
Latina Roman Catholic Theologies......Page 1242
Rebirth of the Religion of the Goddess......Page 1249
Women’s Issues in Contemporary NorthAmerican Buddhism......Page 1256
Lesbian and Bisexual Issues in Religion......Page 1263
Jewish Feminism......Page 1269
The Case for Native Liberation Theology......Page 1278
Index to Entries......Page 1360