Religion and Gender

Gender and the Study of Religion: Ursula King.

Part I: Theoretical Reflections: .

1. The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion: June O'Connor.

2. Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies: Rosalind Shaw.

3. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender: Erin White.

4. Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Problems of Gender and Religion: Penelope Margaret Magee.

5. God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women's Invocation of the Divine: Morny Joy.

6. The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy: Naomi Goldenberg.

7. Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess: Donate Pahnke.

8. Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo-Feminist Perspective: Felicity Edwards.

Part II: Empirical Investigations:.

9. Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion: Kim Knott.

10. A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion: Ursula King.

11. Women's Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives: Kari Borresen.

12. Women and New Religious Movements in Africa: Rosalind I. J. Hackett.

13. Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan: Marilyn F. Nefsy.

Notes on Contributors.