Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflectionRosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life. |
Contents
VOLUME 1 | xi |
Tradition and ChangeFinding | xiii |
Islam | xix |
Religious Experience in North America | xxv |
Religions of Chinese Immigrant | xlvi |
Gender and Social Roles | 23 |
Women in Indigenous | 178 |
Women | 209 |
Colonial Period | 221 |
Protestant Women in the MidAtlantic Colonies | 228 |
Southern Colonial Protestant Women | 236 |
457 | 246 |
Quaker Women in North America | 329 |
Women in the United Church of Christ | 368 |
Women in the Unitarian Universalist Movement | 380 |
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