Gender and the Language of Religion

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Meeting of Gender, Language and Religion....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
An Overview of God and Gender in Religion....Pages 9-24
The Gender of God: Judeo-Christian Feminist Debates....Pages 25-40
Asymmetries of Male/Female Representation in Arabic....Pages 41-62
American Women: Their Cursing Habits and Religiosity....Pages 63-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Women and Men: Languages and Religion in Taiwan....Pages 87-100
Women’s Letters to the Editor: Talking Religion in a Saudi Arabian English Newspaper....Pages 101-132
A Cyber-Parish: Gendered Identity Construction in an On-Line Episcopal Community....Pages 133-150
Language Use and Silence as Morality: Teaching and Lecturing at an Evangelical Theology College....Pages 151-167
The Children of God Who Wouldn’t, but Had To....Pages 168-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
‘Restoring the Broken Image’: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-Gay Ministry....Pages 187-202
‘Assalam u Alaikum. Brother I have a Right to My Opinion on This’: British Islamic Women Assert Their Positions in Virtual Space....Pages 203-220
‘Inshallah, today there will be work’: Senegalese Women Entrepreneurs Constructing Identities through Language Use and Islamic Practice....Pages 221-239
Gender, Hebrew Language Acquisition and Religious Values in Jewish High Schools in North America....Pages 240-256
Speaking Our Gendered Selves: Hinduism and the Indian Woman....Pages 257-269
Back Matter....Pages 270-281