ISBN:
9781118833940
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (448 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issue Book Series
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issues Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
201/.7
Keywords:
Sex role -- Religious aspects
;
Sex role ; Religious aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Sex, Gender and the Sacred presents a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that explore the interlocking narratives of religion and gender encompassing 4,000 years of history. Contains readings relating to sex and religion that encompass 4,000 years of gender history Features new research in religion and gender across diverse cultures, periods, and religious traditions Presents multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives with significant comparative potential Offers original theories and concepts relating to gender, religion, and sexuality Includes innovative interpretations of the connections between visual, verbal, and material aspects of particular religious traditions.
Abstract:
Intro -- Sex, Gender and the Sacred -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Beyond the 'Religious Turn'? Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Gender History -- Past perspectives -- Present perspectives -- Crossing cultures, and transcultural exchanges -- Religion, embodiment and subjectivity -- Religion, gender and sexuality -- Gender, religion and political activity -- Future perspectives -- Notes -- Part I Crossing Cultures and Transnational Exchanges -- 1 Witches, Female Priests and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)Stabilising Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin -- Ocha-Ifá: African roots, Cuban praxis -- Witches, warlocks and the spectre of history -- The Egbe Gëlèdé: contemporary manoeuvres in gender, sexuality and the sacred -- 'Women penetrate Ifá' -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Liberal Religion and the 'Woman Question' between East and West: Perspectives from a Nineteenth-Century Bengali Women's Journal -- Unitarian women activists as exemplars for Brahmo women -- The 'new' Bengali woman and the spectre of the 'strong-minded' woman -- Communications between Unitarian and Brahmo women -- Liberal religion and the 'woman question' between east and west -- Notes -- 3 Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan -- The Shannüren zhuan -- The editor -- Religious syncretism -- Literary form: structures and strictures -- Formulaic narrative in the Pure Land women's biographies -- Truncated narrative in the Chan women's biographies -- Some critical remarks -- Appendix I: two samples of Pure Land women's biographies -- Biography 114 Madam Li -- Biography 123 Madam Xu -- Appendix II: two samples of Chan women's biographies -- Biography 16 The Wandering Old Women Li -- Biography 21 The Old Woman Who Burned A Lodge -- Notes.
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