Women and Christianity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.; Torjesen, Karen Jo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the impact of Christian women-as scholars and leaders representing the ethnic, national, racial, and denominational diversity of Christianity today-on all aspects of life. Women and Christianity explores the experiences of women and how their daily lives interface with their spirituality and faith. Beginning with a historical overview, the book presents essays grouped under five broad headings: women, family, and environment; socioeconomics, politics, and authority; body, mind, and spirit; sex, power, and vulnerability; and women, world view, and religious practice. These essays focus on multiple aspects of women's experiences and contemporary Christian realities, involving the interrelatedness of faith, thought, and activism across many strata of global society. They wrestle with the daily experiences and challenges women face integrating their lives as women of faith-as they are advocates, experience agency, and work for mutuality. It shows how in all these roles, women must negotiate power, injustice, and the impact of sexism as they work within systemic oppression amid a patriarchal system, nevertheless championing change and refusing to be severely compromised.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216166153
• Artikelnr.: 70037404

Autorenporträt

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, PhD, is professor of theology and women's studies at Shaw University Divinity School, Raleigh, NC. Karen Jo Torjesen, PhD, is the Margo L. Goldsmith Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, and initiated two graduate programs, one in women's studies, another in religious studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Karen Jo Torjesen Part I. Women
Family
Environment 1. There Goes the Bride: A Snapshot of the Ideal Christian Wife Kathlyn A. Breazeale 2. Righteous Anger and Sustaining Faith: Black Women's Activism in the Environmental Justice Movement Tuere Bowles 3. How Women Relate to the Evils of Nature Karen Baker-Fletcher Part II. Socioeconomics
Politics
Authority 4. Beyond Priesthood: Catholic Women Seek Empowerment in a Post-Vatican II Church Judith Johnson 5. Gender and Society: Competing Visions of Women's Agency
Equality
and Well-being Pamela K. Brubaker 6. Oppression and Resistance: The Church
Women's Work
and the Struggle for Liberation Joan M. Martin Part III. Body
Mind
Spirit 7. Spirit Matters: Body
Mind
and Motherhood Jean T. Corey 8. Spirituality
Love
and Women Soyoung Baik-Chey 9. What the Mind Forgets the Body Remembers: Women
Poverty
and HIV Linda E. Thomas Part IV. Sex
Power
Vulnerability 10. Sexual Violence: A Sin against Women Marie M. Fortune 11. An Articulation of a Theology of the Body for Queer Theory Marie Cartier 12. Sexuality
Politics
and Faith Shari Julian Part V. Women
Worldview
Religious Practice 13. Women and Christianity in the Caribbean: Living Past the Colonial Legacy Althea Spencer Miller 14. Maternal Practices as Religious Piety: The Pedagogical Practices of American Latter-day Saint Women Amy Hoyt Suggested Reading Index About the Editors and Contributors