Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Rabia Harris, Community of Living Traditions
Editor's Introduction by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica
SECTION ONE • A FIRMLY FLUID FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION
1 A Work in Progress: Feminist Scholarship Shaping God's Image—Then and Now by Jacqueline J. Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church, New York
2 The Inclusive Language of God: Why It Matters for Women's Studies in Religion by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins Colleg
3 Doing Women's Studies in Religion—A Methodology Primer for Moving from the Classroom into Real Life by Natalie Kertes Weaver, Ursuline College
4 Women's Creative Research Methodologies on the Peripheries and at the Border: Latina Women's Restorative Interventions through Art and Activism by Rebecca M. Berru-Davis, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota
SECTION TWO • ETHICAL CONNECTIONS
5 Where Ecofeminism Meets Religions: Contributions and Challenges by Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada
6 Reconfiguring Economic Sustainability: A Feminist Ethic for Liberty and Justice for All by Sharon D. Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School(Unitarian Universalist)
7 Feminist Ethics and the Harms of Credibility Excess by Candace Jordan, Princeton University, PhD candidate
8 Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Health Care's Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women's Pain by Anjeanette M.Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary, PhD Student
SECTION THREE • RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION
9 Constructing Wicca as "Women's Religion": A By-Product of Feminist Religious Scholarship by Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University
10 For All Sentient Beings: The Question of Gender in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Communities by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Occidental College
11 Introducing Asian Transpacific American Feminist Theology by Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Denison University
12 "I Am the One Who Will Change the Direction of the World": A Female Guru's Response to Sexual Inequality and Violence in Hinduism by Antoinette E.DeNapoli, Texas Christian University
13 Women in the Jewish Tradition: A Brief Overview of Jewish Feminism in the Last 50 Years by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College
14 Muslimah Theology and Praxis by Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
15 Homiletical Changes and Preaching Leadership of Women in the Christian Church by HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
SECTION FOUR • CHALLENGING AND CHANGING SYSTEMIC GENDER INJUSTICE
16 What's Religion Got to Do with Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement? by Marie M. Fortune, FaithTrust Institute
17 Femicide in Global Perspective: A Feminist Critique by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica
18 Call to Accountability: Women's Studies in Religion Critiques State Culpability to Feminicide through Border Controls and Exclusion from Asylum by Helen T. Boursier, College of St. Scholastica
19 Doctrine of Discovery: A Mohawk Feminist Response to Colonial Dominion and Violations to Indigenous Lands and Women by Dawn Martin-Hill,McMaster University
20 Women's Religio-Political Witness for Love and Justice by Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College
SECTION FIVE • FUTURE MOVEMENT—THE BECOMING OF WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION
21 Feminism, Religion, and the Digital World by Gina Messina, Ursuline College
22 Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women's Mosque Spaces Online by Krista Melanie Riley, Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
23 Minoritized Sexual Identities and the Theo-Politics of Democracy by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, LeMoyne College
24 Spiritual Homelessness and Homemaking: A Nomadic Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Violence by Denise Starkey, College of St. Scholastica
25 Hope Now by Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
26 Resources for Clarification, Education, and Action
Index
About the Contributors
