Feminism and Religion: How Faiths View Women and Their Rights

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Epigraph
Contents
Series Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Views from the Bible and Buddhism to the Quran and Taoism
	Chapter 1 Is Faith in the Bible and Feminism Compatible?
	Chapter 2 The Goddess-Worshipping Age: Feminist Egalitarianism in Prehistory and Early History
	Chapter 3 Feminist Perspectives from the Hebrew Bible
	Chapter 4 The Church, Woman, Leadership, and the Body
	Chapter 5 Feminism Re-frames Who Wrote Hebrew Scriptures: 10th-Century Tamar, the “Master” Storyteller
	Chapter 6 Women in the Holy Quran
	Chapter 7 Feminism in Hinduism: Female Deities and Their Influence on South Asian Culture
	Chapter 8 Feminism in Buddhism
	Chapter 9 Femineity in the Gospel of John
	Chapter 10 Feminism in the Eastern Orthodox Church
	Chapter 11 The Mystical Feminine in Baha’i Scriptures
Part II Religious Philosophy in Feminism and Feminist Action
	Chapter 12 Martial Religion, Ravaging Warfare, and Rape: Polytheistic Greek and Monotheistic Israelite Views
	Chapter 13 Judaism and Feminism
	Chapter 14 A Room Prepared: Women and the Mystic Experience
	Chapter 15 The Feminine Spiritual
	Chapter 16 Feminism and the Pro-Life/Pro-Choice Debate
	Chapter 17 Historical Resonances of the Feminine in the Brazilian Christian Religions
	Chapter 18 Faith and Feminism: Resolving the Gender Issue through Mythology and Archetype
	Chapter 19 Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Theologies in Conversation
	Chapter 20 Confucianism and Feminism
	Chapter 21 Men Are Not Yang and Women Are Not Yin: Gender Construction in the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching
	Chapter 22 American Muslim Women and Faith-Inspired Activism
	Chapter 23 Special Women in the Holy Quran
	Chapter 24 Feminism and the Future of Religion
About the Editors and Contributors
Index