Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection

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Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon
Indiana University Press, 2006 - Reference - 1394 pages
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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About the author (2006)

American feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ruether graduated from Scripps College in 1958 and received her doctorate in classics and patristics from Claremont Graduate School in 1956. In 1976 she became Georgia Harkness Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, a position she continues to hold. An activist in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s, Ruether turned her energies to the emerging women's movement. During the 1970s and successive decades, feminist concerns impelled her to rethink historical theology, analyzing the patriarchal biases in both Christianity and Judaism that elevated male gender at the expense of women. Her rigorous scholarship has challenged many of the assumptions of traditionally male-dominated Christian theology. Recognized as one of the most prolific and readable Catholic writers, Ruether's work represents a significant contribution to contemporary theology, and her views have influenced a generation of scholars and theologians. Her imprint on feminist theology has been reinforced by her lectureships at a number of universities in the United States and abroad.

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