Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling

Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words
Herausgeber: Fiedler, Maureen

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Church Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781596271203
• ISBN-10: 1596271205
• Artikelnr.: 28224855

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Introduction * Acknowledgments * A Word about Interfaith Voices Chapter 1 - Women in Denominational or Organizational Religious Leadership
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church
Rev. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President, Christian Church/Disciples of Christ, Preacher at Inaugural Service of President Obama
Bishop Vashti McKenzie, First Woman Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. Susan Andrews: First Woman National Moderator of the Presbyterian Church/USA
Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America
Swami Krishna Priya Bognavati: First Woman Hindu Acharya (Teacher/Guide) in the U.S.
Ishani Chowdury, the "face of Hinduism" in Washington: Director of Public Policy for the Hindu American Foundation
The Mourchidates of Morocco: Fatima Zahra Salhi, Ilham Chafik, and Nezha Nassi
Starhawk: Leader of the Earth-Based Wiccan/Goddess Tradition Chapter 2 - Women Theologians and Scripture Scholars
Dr. Amy Jill Levine on The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker on Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire
Dr. Elaine Pagels on Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Dr. Karen King on the Nag Hammadi Library and The Gospel of Judas
Dr. Julie Galambush on The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book Chapter 3 - Women in Feminist Theology
Dr. Mary Hunt and Dr. Judith Plaskow on Christian & Jewish Feminist Theology
Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether on Goddesses & the Divine Feminine
Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether and Dr. Delores Williams on Feminist and Womanist Theologies
Dr. Amina Wadud on Inside the Gender Jihad
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson on She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
Dr. Rena Pederson on The Lost Apostle: Searching for the Truth About Junia
Dr. Phyllis Trible on Hagar, Sarah and Their Children Chapter 4 - Religious Feminist Activists
Rabbi Eveline Goodman-Thau, First Woman Orthodox Rabbi
Aisha Taylor, former Executive Director, Women's Ordination Conference on the Archeological Evidence for Women's Leadership
Rev. Andrea Johnson, Roman Catholic Woman Bishop
Rabbi Susan Talve, Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis, MO
Asra Nomani on Standing Alone at Mecca
Daisy Khan, Executive Director of ASMA, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and Muslim Women Organizing for Empowerment Chapter 5 - Women Leaders in Spirituality
Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB on Called to Question: Her Memoir
Barbara Brown Taylor on Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Ann Lamott on Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Immaculee Ilibagiza, on Left to Tell: Finding God in the Rwandan Genocide
Sharon Salzburg (with Robert Thurman) On Buddhism in America
Sallie Tisdale on Women of the Way: Buddhist Women though 2500 Years
LaDonna Harris on Native American Spirituality
Rev. Dr. Renita Weems on Womanist Spirituality
Jean Houston on Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to our Inner Life
Dr. Jeanette Rodriquez on Our Lady of Gaudalupe in Mexican-American Spirituality Chapter 6 - Women Leaders in Social Justice, Peace and Ecology
Layli Miller-Muro: Caring About Women's Rights in the Baha'i Tradition
Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ on The Death of Innocents
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Reclaiming the Catholic Social Justice Tradition
Julia Butterfly Hill: Out on a Limb, Saving the Redwoods
Kim Bobo: Defending the Rights of Working People
Lutheran Bishop Margaret Payne: Seeking Peace and Human Rights in the Middle East
Leymah Gbowee and Abigail Disney: Christian and Muslim Women in Liberia "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" Chapter 7 - Women Leaders in Interfaith Relations
Diana Eck of the Pluralism Project
Mary Helene Rosenbaum on the Challenges of Interfaith Marriage
Dr. Susanna Heschel on the Interfaith friendship of her father and Dr. Martin Luther King
Ranya Idilby (Muslim), Suzanne Oliver (Christian), Priscilla Warner (Jewish) on The Faith Club - an Interfaith movement in their living rooms
Kathy Giese, a Christian, Olivia Berardi, a Jew and Nafees Ahmed, a Muslim Conducting Teenage Interfaith Dialogue Chapter 8 - Women Leaders in Religious Media
Barbara Bradley Haggerty, NPR Religion Correspondent, On Fingerprints of God (on the Science of Spirituality)
Krista Tippett On Speaking of Faith Epilogue