| Description |
x, 326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the complexity of symbols / Caroline Walker Bynum -- pt. 1. Gender as culturally constructed meaning: Iranian sofreh : from collective to female ritual / Laal Jamzadeh and Margaret Mills ; Ambiguous gender : male initiation in a northern Thai Buddhist society / Charles F. Keyes ; Men, women, and ghosts in Tainwanese folk religion / Stevan Harrell ; The priesthood and motherhood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Carolyn M. Wallace -- pt. 2. Gender as polysemic symbol: The portrayal of a female renouncer in a Tamil Buddhist text / Paula Richman ; Gender and cosmology in Chinese correlative thinking / Alison H. Black ; Uses of gender imagery in ancient Gnostic texts / Michael A. Williams -- pt. 3. Gender as point-of-view: Images of gender in the poetry of Krishna / John Stratton Hawley ; "... And woman his humanity" : female imagery in the religious writing of the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum ; Male and female perspectives on a psychoanalytic myth / John E. Toews. |
| Subject |
Sex -- Religious aspects.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects.
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| Added Author |
Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Harrell, Stevan.
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Richman, Paula.
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| ISBN |
0807010081: $25.00 |
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