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Contents Introductory Essay: Integrating the Worlds of Women's Religious Experience in North America, Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether Part I. Approaches to the Study of Women and Religion Women and Religion: Methods of Study and Reflection, Rita M. Gross Religions and Modern Feminism, Ann Braude Gender and Social Roles, Susan Hill Lindley North American Women Interpret Scripture, J. Shannon Clarkson and Letty M. Russell Women's Religious Imagination, Mary Farrell Bednarowski Social Ethics, Women, and Religion, Marilyn J. Legge The Psychology of Women's Religious Experience, Ann Belford Ulanov Women's Spiritual Biography and Autobiography, Rosemary Skinner Keller Part II. Women in Indigenous and African Traditions Native American Creation Stories, Laura Adams Weaver Native American Women and Christianity, Kim Stone American Indian Boarding Schools, Andrea Smith Appropriation of Native American Religious Traditions, Andrea Smith Religious Exchange in Aframerindian Life, Patrick Neal Minges Women in African Caribbean Religious Traditions, Dianne M. Stewart Part III. Catholicism Women in North American Catholicism, Rosemary Radford Ruether Religious Women in Colonial Mexico, Kathleen Ann Myers Godmothers and Goddaughters: Catholic Women in Colonial New France and New England, Lisa J. M. Poirier American Catholic Women, 1820-1900: From the Jacksonian Period to the Progressive Era, Holly Folk African American Catholic Women, Cecilia A. Moore Latina Popular Catholicism, Jeanette Rodriguez Asian and Pacific American Catholic Women, Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada American Catholic Women, 1900-1965, Debra Campbell American Catholic Women since Vatican Council II, Mary Jo Weaver Determined Builders, Powerful Voices: Women and Catholicism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Quebec and Canada, Carolyn Sharp Part IV. Protestantism Colonial Period Women and Protestantism in Colonial New England, Rebecca Larson Protestant Women in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, Alison Duncan Hirsch Southern Colonial Protestant Women, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly Protestantism in British North America (Canada), Marilyn Färdig Whiteley Denominational Traditions Women and African American Denominations, Sandy Dwayne Martin Women of Anabaptist Traditions, Marlene Epp Women in the American Episcopal Church, Fredrica Harris Thompsett Women in the Anglican Church in Canada, Sharon Anne Cook Baptist Women, Carolyn D. Blevins Christian Church/Disciples of Christ Tradition and Women, Loretta M. Long Women and Lutheranism, Mary Todd Methodist Women, Jean Miller Schmidt and Sara J. Myers Quaker Women in North America, Mary Van Vleck Garman Women in Reformed Churches, Rebecca Button Prichard Presbyterian Women in America, Lois A. Boyd Women in the United Church of Canada, Phyllis D. Airhart Women in the United Church of Christ, Barbara Brown Zikmund Women in the Unitarian Universalist Movement, Cynthia Grant Tucker Evangelical Protestantism Women in Pentecostalism, Edith Blumhofer Women in the Salvation Army, Diane Winston Revivalism, Priscilla Pope-Levison Holiness Movements, Nancy A. Hardesty The Sanctified Church(es), Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Fundamentalism, Margaret L. Bendroth America's Evangelical Women: More than Wives and Mothers--Reformers, Ministers, and Leaders, Jane Harris The Charismatic Movement, R. Marie Griffith Euro-American Evangelical Feminism, Reta Halteman Finger and S. Sue Horner Hispanic Protestantism U.S. Latina Evangélicas, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier and Loida I. Martell Otero Race and Gender in Latina Experience, Teresa Ch vez Sauceda Hispanic Pentecostal Women, Gastón Espinosa Asian Protestantism Asian Pacific American Protestant Women, Rita Nakashima Brock and Nami Kim Part V. Women in Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Traditions Women in Orthodox Christian Traditions, Demetra Velisarios Jaquet Oriental Orthodox Traditions and the Armenian Church, Barbara J. Merguerian An Orthodox Perspective on Feminist Theology, Valerie A. Karras Part VI. Judaism Reform Judaism, Karla Goldman Tradition and Change--Finding the Right Balance: Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism, Shuly Rubin Schwartz Orthodox Jewish Women in America: Diversity, Challenges, and Coming of Age, Blu Greenberg Jewish Women and Ritual, Hasia R. Diner Jewish Law and Gender, Norma Baumel Joseph Anti-Semitism, Riv-Ellen Prell Part VII. Islam Islam, Women, and the Struggle for Identity in North America, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad African American Muslim Women, Aminah Beverly McCloud Women, Islam, and Mosques, Ingrid Mattson Women's Issues in American Islam, Jane I. Smith Part VIII. Asian Religions Buddhism Origins of Buddhism in North America, Lori Pierce Women and Zen Buddhisms: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese, Miriam Levering and Grace Jill Schireson The Way of the Elders: Theravada Buddhism, including the Vipassana Movement, Sandy Boucher Tibetan Buddhism, Amy Lavine Hinduism Hinduism in North America: Emerging Issues, Vasudha Narayanan New Hindu Movements, Kathleen M. Erndl Chinese Religions Religions of Chinese Immigrant Communities and Chinese Religions Practiced in North America by Non-Chinese People, Vivian-Lee Nyitray Japanese Religions Religions of Japanese Immigrants and Japanese American Communities, Ruth M. Tabrah Women and Jainism in North America, Anne Vallely Sikh Women in North America, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh Part IX. Newer Religious Movements Women in Communitarian Societies, Rosemary Radford Ruether Mormon Women, Claudia L. Bushman Women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rita M. Lester Vodou, Spiritism, and Santería: Hybridity and Identity in Caribbean Religions, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi Christian Science, Sarah Gardner Cunningham Clara Evans Muhammad: Pioneering Social Activism in the Original Nation of Islam, Debra Mubashir Majeed Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age Movements, Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft Spiritualism, Cathy Gutierrez Women in the North American Baha'i Community, Sandra Hutchinson and Richard Hollinger Women in New Religious Movements since the 1960s, Susan J. Palmer Women in Jewish Renewal, Reena Sigman Friedman Ancient Matriarchies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Feminist Thought, Cynthia Eller Women in the Wiccan Religion and Contemporary Paganism, Selena Fox Part X. Multidenominational Movements The Deaconess Movement, Cynthia A. Jurisson Missionary Movement Protestant Women Missionaries: Foreign and Home, Dana L. Robert American Catholic Women Missionaries, 1870-2000, Angelyn Dries Women's Societies Leadership and Community Building in Protestant Women's Organizations, Rosemary Skinner Keller "Lifting as We Climb": National Association of Colored Women (NACW)/National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Marcia Y. Riggs Religious Education Women and Catechetics in the Roman Catholic Tradition, Mary L. Putrow Catholic Women's Colleges in the United States, Tracy Schier Conservative Christian Strategies in Education, James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray Women and Jewish Education, David E. Kaufman Protestant Sunday Schools and Religious Education, Virginia Lieson Brereton Protestant Women's Colleges in the United States, Kathleen S. Hurty Women in Theological Education, Jeanne P. McLean When Women Enter the Classroom: Theory, Theology, and Teaching, Barbara J. Blodgett The Ordination Movement The Protestant Women's Ordination Movement, Barbara Brown Zikmund The Women's Ordination Movement in the Roman Catholic Church, Maureen Fiedler and Dolly Pomerleau Jewish Women's Ordination, Pamela S. Nadell Protestant Female Preaching in the United States, Catherine A. Brekus Music and the Arts Women Hymn Writers, Edith Blumhofer African American Hymnody, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Women's Novels and Religion, 1780-1900, Diane Capitani Women, Religion, and American Film, Judith Weisenfeld Part XI. Women, Religion, and Social Reform Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Protestant Social Reform Movements in the United States, Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford Antislavery, Abolitionism, Anna M. Speicher Women and Peace Movements in North America, Valarie Ziegler The Settlement House Movement, Eleanor J. Stebner The Social Gospel, Susan Hill Lindley Women and Garveyism, Anthea D. Butler The Civil Rights Movement, Rosetta E. Ross Engaged Buddhist Women, Judith Simmer-Brown Women's Freedom and Reproductive Rights: The Core Fear of Patriarchy, Frances Kissling Ecofeminism, Heather Eaton Jewish Women's Service Organizations, Dianne Ashton Abundant Life for All: The Young Women's Christian Association, Janine M. Denomme Women and Religion in the Borderlands, Daisy L. Machado Turning Off the Taps: Public Policy in Canada, Lois M. Wilson The Public Leadership of Women of Faith: Entrepreneurs, Social Alchemists, and Bearers of Religion in the World, Katharine R. Henderson Part XII. Women-Centered Theology Womanist Theology, Emilie M. Townes Euro-American Feminist Theology, Lucy Tatman Hispanic Women's Theologies Las Hermanas: Latinas and Religious/Political Activism, Lara Medina Mujerista Theology, Ada María Isasi-Díaz Latina Roman Catholic Theologies, Nancy Pineda-Madrid Rebirth of the Religion of the Goddess, Carol P. Christ Buddhist Women's Issues in Contemporary North American Buddhism, Rita M. Gross Lesbian and Bisexual Issues in Religion, Mary E. Hunt Jewish Feminism, Judith Plaskow The Case for Native Liberation Theology, Andrea Smith Part XIII. Contemporary Women's Issues in Religion Women-Church, Mary E. Hunt New Feminist Ritual, Janet Walton Women and Healing in North America, Susan M. Setta Women in Protestant Church Societies and Bureaucracies, Susan M. Hartmann Plural Religious Identities and Households, Rita DasGupta Sherma Women's Contributions to Jewish-Christian Relations, Mary C. Boys Canadian Women's Religious Issues, Tracy J. Trothen Inclusive Language, Susan Thistlewaite The New Religious Right, Laura R. Olson Sexuality and the Black Church, Kelly Brown Douglas Girlfriend Theology: Adolescent Girls and Faith Communities, Dori Grinenko Baker
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women and religion -- North America -- Encyclopedias.
Women -- Religious life -- North America -- Encyclopedias.
Women -- Religious aspects -- North America -- Encyclopedias.