Gender, Genre and Religion

Feminist Reflections
Herausgeber: Joy, Morny; Neumaier-Dargyay, Eva K

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Produktbeschreibung

Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception. Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to "plot the path forward." This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles. Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors. The sensitive and original essays in Gender, Genre and Religion will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780889202535
• ISBN-10: 0889202532
• Artikelnr.: 44140989

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, edited by Morny Joy and
Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay
Foreward
Preface
About the Authors
I. Introduction
Introduction Morny Joy and Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay
II. Setting the Theme
Chapter 1. Framing Discourse for the Future Mary Gerhart
III. Gendered Perspectives
Chapter 2. Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics Eileen Schuller
Chapter 3. The Feminist Challenge to Judaism Norma Baumel Joseph
Chapter 4. Feminist Theology Pamela Dickey Young
Chapter 5. Le Concept "expériences des femmes" dans l'avènement d'une
théologie féministe Monique Dumais
Chapter 6. Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Feminist Atheist's Perspective on
Recent Work Naomi R. Goldenberg
Chapter 7. Aboriginal Women and Religion: Anu Kan San Tok Ahe Mani Win
Doreen Spence
Chapter 8. The Impact of Social Change on Muslim Women Sheila McDonough
IV. Genre Explorations
Chapter 9. Buddhist Thought from a Feminist Perspective Eva K.
Neumaier-Dargyay
Chapter 10. Upholding Norms of Hindu Womanhood: An Analysis Based on
Reviews of Hindi Cinema Katherine K. Young
Chapter 11. Protection and Humanity: A Case Study of Feminine Spirituality
in Thirteenth-Century Marseilles Francine Michaud
Chapter 12. Hsing-Shin Yin-Yuan: Karmic Versus Psychological Views of a
Man's Relationships with His Women Fan Pen Chen
Chapter 13. Multidialogical Spiralling for Healing and Justice Mariyln J.
Legge
Chapter 14. A Religious Philosophy of Self Winnie Tomm
Chapter 15. The Negative Power of "the Feminine": Herbert Marcuse, Mary
Daly and Gynocentric Feminism Marsha Hewitt
Chapter 16. And What if Truth Were a Woman? Morny Joy
Index
About the Authors
Norma Baumel Joseph is a member of the faculty in the Department of
Religion at Concordia University, Montreal. For the past eighteen years she
has been teaching, lecturing and publishing on women and Judaism, Jewish
law and ethics and women and religion. She has lobbied for Jewish women's
rights in a variety of contexts, forming local and international groups to
further those goals. Norma appeared in and was consultant to the film Half
the Kingdom. "Mostly, I love teaching, especially teaching women. There is
so much on our agenda, we have so much to do; but first we must learn,
reflect and study. And then we must share, empower and act."
Fan Pen Chen was born in Taiwan. She grew up in Taiwan, Libya and the US.
She received her BA from Yale University and completed her MA, MPhil and
PhD in Chinese literature at Columbia University. Having taught at the
University of Calgary and the University of Alberta, Fan is currently an
Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at SUNY-Albany.
Her numerous articles in both English and Chinese deal with the treatment
of female personae in a wide range of genres of Chinese literature from the
eighth to the nineteenth centuries.
Pamela Dickey Young is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious
Studies and Dean of Women at Queen's University. She is the author of
Feminist Theology/Christian Theology (Fortress, 1990) and of many scholarly
articles. In 1991-92 she was the President of the Canadian Theological
Society. Her current research interests include feminism and religious
pluralism and feminist christology. Among recent articles she has published
are: "Diversity in Feminist Christology," Studies in Religion/ Sciences
Religieuses, 21/1 (1992): 81-90; "Theology and Commitment," Toronto Journal
of Theology, 9, 2 (Fall 1993): 169-176; "Ubi Christus Ibi Ecclesia: Some
Christological Themes Relevant in Formulating New Ecclesiologies," in New
Wine: The Challenge of the Emerging Ecclesiologies to Church Renewal, ed.
H.S. Wilson and Nyambura Njoroge (Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed
Churches, 1994), 63-74; Christ in a Post-Christian World: How Can We
Believe in Jesus Christ When Those Around Us Believe Differently Or Not At
All? (Minneapolis: Fortress, Spring 1995); "Beyond Moral Influence to an
Atoning Life," Theology Today (forthcoming).
Monique Dumais teaches in Theology and in Ethics at the Université du
Québec a Rimouski. After studies in Rimouski, her birthplace, she attended
Harvard Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary in New York City,
where she obtained a PhD in Theology in 1977. Her research is mainly
focused on Women and Religion, Women and the Church in Quebec and also on
Ethics in Feminist discourses. In 1976, she founded, with three other
women, a Christian feminist collective in Quebec called L'autreparole. She
has published many articles and books on her topics of research with
Editions Paulines: Les femmes dans la Bible (1985); Experiences et
Interpellations (1985); Souffles de femmes (1989); and with Marie-Andree
Roy, Lectures feministes de la religion (1989) and Les droits des femmes
(1992).
Mary Gerhart is Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges. The author of The Question of Belief in Literary Criticism: An
Introduction to the Hermeneutical Theory of Paul Ricoeur (1979), she has
co-authored Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious
Understanding (with A.M. Russell, 1984) and co-edited Morphologies of Faith
(with Anthony C. Yu, 1992). Her most recent book is Genre Choices: Gender
Questions (University of Oklahoma, 1992), a study of the reciprocal ways in
which genre and gender shape each other. She has served as editorial chair
of Religious Studies Review and is on the editorial boards of several other
journals.
Naomi R. Goldenberg is Professor of Psychology of Religion and former
director of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa. She attended
Princeton University and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and received
her doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. She is the author
of Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion and Psychoanalysis (New York:
Crossroad, 1993); The End of God: Important Directions for a Feminist
Critique of Religion in the Work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung (Ottawa:
University of Ottawa Press, 1982); and Changing of the Gods: Feminism and
the End of Traditional Religions (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979).
Marsha Hewitt is Associate Professor of Social Ethics and Contemporary
Theology at Trinity College and teaches in The Centre for the Study of
Religion, University of Toronto. Her publications include From Theology to
Social Theory: Juan Luis Segundo and the Theology of Liberation (Peter
Lang, 1990) and Toward a Feminist Critical Theory of Religion (Fortress
Press, 1995). She is editor of the series, Feminist Critical Studies in
Religion and Culture (Peter Lang). Her recent articles include: "Cyborgs,
Drag Queens and Goddesses" and "Illusions of Freedom: Some Regressive
Implications of Postmodernism."
Morny Joy is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of
Calgary. She received her PhD in Philosophy of Religion from McGill
University. Her recent publications include "Divine Reservations," in
Derrida and Negative Theology (SUNY, 1992) and "Feminism and the Self,"
Theory and Psychology 3/3 (1993), and "God and Gender: Some Reflections on
Women's Explorations of the Divine," in Religion and Gender (Blackwells,
1994). Moray is currently President of the Canadian Society for the Study
of Religion.
Marilyn J. Legge is McDougald Professor of Systematic Theology at St.
Andrew's College, Saskatoon. Her publications include The Grace of
Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic (Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1992) and "Liberation Ecclesiology: The Church in Solidarity," in Cadorette
et al., Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1992). Her commitment to healing and justice is expressed through a
diversity of networks, friendships and feminist activities.
Francine Michaud is Assistant Professor in the History Department,
University of Calgary. She studied at the Université d'Aix-Marseilles and
the Centre of Medieval Studies in Toronto, before obtaining her PhD from
Laval University. Her area of interest is social and religious history in
the High Middle Ages. Her dissertation on wills in Marseilles at the end of
the thirteenth century has been published by the Pontifical Institute of
Medieval Studies, Toronto, in 1994.
Sheila McDonough was born in Calgary, and received her doctorate from the
Institute of Islamic Studies in McGill University. She taught for three
years in the Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan, and for one
year in the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, England. Since graduating,
she has been teaching World Religions, Islam, and Women and Religion among
other subjects at Concordia University, Montreal. She was one of the
professors who introduced Women's Studies into the curriculum at Concordia
in the early seventies. She is the author of Muslim Ethics and Modernity
(Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1984) and Gandhi's
Response to Islam (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 1994).
Eva Neumaier-Dargyay is Professor and Acting Chair of Comparative Studies
in Literature, Film, and Religion at the University of Alberta. She
received her Dr. phil. and Dr. phil. habil. from the Ludwig-Maximilians
University at Munich, Germany (1966 and 1976) in the area of Tibetan and
Indian Languages and Literatures. Her research comprises the study and
interpretation of Tibetan texts from a feminist and psychoanalytic
perspective, and historical, anthropological and sociological studies of
Tibetan civilization. She has published four single-authored books and one
co-authored book on various subjects of Tibetan religion and culture
besides many articles in scholarly journals.
Eileen Schuller did her studies at the University of Alberta, the
University of Toronto and Harvard University where she obtained a PhD in
1984 in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She has taught in
Edmonton, Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax and presently is Associate
Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton. Her
publications include books on Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran: A
Pseudepigraphic Collection (Scholars Press, 1986) and Post-Exilic Prophecy
(Michael Glazier Press, 1988) and articles on "Women in the Apocrypha," in
C. Newsom and S. Ringe, eds., The Women's Bible Commentary
(Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991) and "Women of the Bible in Biblical
Retellings of the Second Temple Period," in P. Day, ed., Gender and
Difference (Fortress Press, 1989). She is editing a number of hymnic and
psalmic manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls for Discoveries in the
Judaean Desert, and has been Associate Editor of the Apocryphra section for
the Harper Collins Study Bible.
Doreen Spence, who is a Cree from Northern Alberta, has been in the nursing
profession for the past 35 years. She dedicates the majority of her time to
performing volunteer work in the Native and non-Native communities, her
emphasis always being on Aboriginal Issues and concerns. Doreen's work in
the field of human rights and the protection of fundamental freedoms for
her people is unsurpassed in terms of historical and social content,
clarity and effectiveness of presentation and in-depth knowledge of various
indigenous cultures. She is the President of the Plains Indians Cultural
Survival School Society, a position which she has held for over a decade.
Doreen was nominated for the Woman of Distinction Award in 1989 and 1993,
as well as for the Lamp of Learning Award through the Calgary Board of
Education in May of 1993. She received an international award at the New
Zealand Spiritual Elders Conference in 1992 along with the Dalai Lama, and
also received the Chief David Crowchild Award in 1992.
Winnie Tomm is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Women's Studies
Program at the University of Alberta. Currently she is completing the
revisions on a manuscript on spirituality and feminism, supported by a
SSHRC grant. She edited The Effect of Feminist Approaches to Research
Methodologies (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989), and
co-edited, with Gordon Hamilton, Gender Bias and Scholarship: The Pervasive
Prejudice (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988) supported
by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. She has published articles and
chapters on feminist spirituality, ethics and epistemology.
Katherine K. Young publishes in the field of Hinduism, especially South
Indian Hinduism and Gender and Hinduism as well as comparative studies in
Gender and Religion. She has recently edited a book entitled Hermeneutical
Paths to the Sacred Worlds of India (1994) and is currently finishing two
books: Spiritualty Walking a Hindu Way and New Perspectives on Women in
Hinduism. She has written the theoretical introductions for three books:
Women in World Religions, Religion and Women, and Today's Woman in World
Religions edited by Arvind Sharma. As well she coedits with Sharma the
Annual Review of Women in World Religions.