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Social Science Women's Studies

Gender, Genre and Religion

Feminist Reflections

edited by Morny Joy & Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Calgary Institute
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sexuality & Gender Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889207509
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889202535
    Publish Date
    Jul 1995
    List Price
    $34.99

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Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways. Canadian feminists are no exception.

Gender, Genre and Religion is the outcome of a research network of leading women scholars organized to survey the contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious studies and, further, to “plot the path forward.” This collection of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will change as women take on more central roles.

Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from and gone beyond their predecessors.

The sensitive and original essays in Gender, Genre and Religion will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone teaching women and religion courses.

About the authors

Morny Joy is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary. She has published many articles on women and religion, feminist theory and contemporary continental philosophy.

Eva Neumair-Dargyay is Professor and Acting Chair of Comparative Studies in Literature, Film and Religion at the University of Alberta. She has published four single-authored books and one co-authored one on various subjects of Tibetan religion and culture.

Morny Joy's profile page

Eva Neumair-Dargyay is Professor and Acting Chair of Comparative Studies in Literature, Film and Religion at the University of Alberta. She has published four single-authored books and one co-authored one on various subjects of Tibetan religion and culture.

Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"These essays clearly illustrate the diversity not only within religious studies but within feminist studies in Canada. The book exemplifies the conviction of the editors that different methods and genres need to be employed in response to changing dimensions of the problem of gender in religion. The book provides a rich resource for all students of religion."

Toronto Journal of Theology