The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women’s studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the spectrum of women’s studies in religion, blurring the boundaries beyond “religious studies” to include perspectives from ethics, philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity addresses challenges for women’s studies through the lens of Wicca, Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application in the section on challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and justice, include how to engage the theories of women’s studies in religion in the public square through civic engagement to create empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future movement of the becoming of women’s studies with chapters digital activism, reimagining women’s mosque spaces online, minoritized sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers to see “hope now” by challenging and changing gender injustice.
Edited by:
Helen T. Boursier
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 188mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 966g
ISBN: 9781538154441
ISBN 10: 1538154447
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 15 June 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Foreword Rabia Harris, Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York Editor’s Introduction Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica Section One: A Firmly Fluid Foundation for Women’s Studies in Religion A Work in Progress—Feminist Scholarship Shaping God’s Image—Then and Now Jacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York The Inclusive Language of God and Why It Matters for Women’s Studies in Religion Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College Doing Women’s Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life Natalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College Women’s Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and At the Borders: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions Through Art and Activism Rebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota Section Two: Ethical Connections Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist) Feminist Theological and Ethical Responses to Testimonial Injustice Candace Y. Jordan, Princeton, PhD candidate Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Healthcare’s Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain Anjeanette M. Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student Section Three: Religious Diversity and Women’s Studies in Religion Constructing Wicca as ‘Women’s Religion’: A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College Introducing Asian Trans Pacific American Feminist Theology Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Dennison University “I am the one who will change the direction of the world”: A Female Guru’s Response to Gender-Motivated Sexual Abuse and Inequality in Hinduism Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College Muslimah Theology and Praxis [Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto Section Four: Challenging and Changing Systemic Gender Injustice What’s Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement? Marie M. Fortune, Faith Trust Institute Femicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica Call to Accountability: Women’s Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum Helen T. Boursier, The College of St. Scholastica Doctrine of Discovery: a Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women Dawn Martin-Hill, McMaster University Women’s Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College Section Five: Future Movement—The Becoming of Women’s Studies in Religion Feminism, Religion, and the Digital World Gina Messina, Ursuline College Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces Online Krista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Minoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-politics of Democracy Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College Spiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence Denise Starkey, The College of St. Scholastica Hope Now Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Institute Resources for Clarification, Education and Action Index Contributors
Helen T. Boursier is a professor of theology at College of St. Mary and Austin Graduate School of Theology. She is a founding member of Feminist Theology in Religion, an academic research group who publish the Journal of Theological Feminist Research. She has a PhD in Theology and a PhD of Divinity and is an ordained priest.
Reviews for The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women’s Studies in Religion
"These 25 essays by faculty and graduate students have great classroom potential. Contributions include smart theoretical essays (Michelle Mueller's ""Constructing Wicca as 'Women's Religion' A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship"" shows how academics can sway popular imagination); compelling case studies (e.g., Antoinette DeNapoli's ""'I Am the One Who Will Change the World' A Female Guru's Response to Sexual Inequality and Violence in Hinduism"" and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa's ""For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities""); interrogations of systemic issues (e.g., Candace Johnson's fascinating ""Feminist Ethics and the Harms of Credibility Excess"" and Dawn Martin Hill's searing ""Doctrine of Discovery: A Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women""); and guidance on moving from theory to praxis (Sharon Welch's ""Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All""). The focus of the collection is more on lived experience--trauma, #MeToo, familial and state-sponsored violence, postcolonial and eco-feminist readings, ethnography, language, reclamation of tradition, online religion--than on textual interpretation or doctrine. Resources include glossaries of hashtags, people, terms, and organizations. Recommended."
