| Description |
xxi, 508 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Separation of women in rabbinic Judaism / Judith Baskin -- Women, religion and social change in early Islam / Jane I. Smith -- Gārgī at the king's court: women and philosophic innovation in ancient India / Ellison Banks Findly -- Nuns and benefactresses: the role of women in the development of Buddhism / Janice D. Willis -- Striking a balance: women and images of women in early Chinese Buddhism / Nancy Schuster -- Magdalen: reflections on the image of the saint and sinner in Christian art / Jane Dillenberger -- Women and Islamic art / Walter B. Denny -- Hindu paradigms of women: images and values / Sandra P. Robinson -- Images and roles of women in Bengali Vaisnava padāvalī kīrtan / Donna Marie Wulff -- Sacred paradoxes: women and religious plurality in Nigeria / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Islam, women and revolution in twentieth-century Arab thought / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Woman's place and the place of women in the Iranian revolution / William R. Darrow -- Religious aspects of women's role in the Nicaraguan revolution / Pauline Turner -- Goddesses, mothers, and heroines: Hindu women and the feminine in the early nationalist movement / Lou Ratté -- Soong sisters and China's revolutions, 1911-1936 / Michael E. Lestz -- Iroquois religion and women in historical perspective / Annemarie A. Shimony -- Spirits defend the rights of women: spiritualism and changing sex roles in nineteenth-century America / Ann D. Braude -- From shackles to liberation: religion, the Grimké sisters and dissent / Frank G. Kirkpatrick -- American Catholic bishops and woman: from the Nineteenth Amendment to ERA / Antoinette Iadarola -- Feminism and the reevaluation of women's roles within American Jewish life / Ellen M. Umansky. |
| Note |
Proceedings of the Hartford Symposium on Women, Religion, and Social Change. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Subject |
Women and religion.
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Social history.
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| Added Author |
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
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Findly, Ellison Banks.
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Hartford Symposium on Women, Religion, and Social Change (1983)
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| ISBN |
0887060684 |
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0887060692 paperback |
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