Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism

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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

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VOLUME 1
1038
Tradition and ChangeFinding
1094
WomenCentered Theology
1163
1149
1243
Gender and Social Roles
1249
Womanist Theology
1255
and Catholicism in Nineteenth and Twentieth
1285
This book is a publication
1293
Islam
1355
Manufactured in the United States of America
1369
Women in Indigenous
1371
Quaker Women in North America
1391
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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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