Women, Gender, Religion A Reader

Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, these essays highlight the contributions that various disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. With contributors as diverse and distinguished as Donna J. Haraway, Aihwa Ong, Mieke Bal, Robert Orsi, Judith Plaskow, among others, this volume displays the theoretical richness of contemporary debates in the field and raises many questions for further inquiry and investigation.

Elizabeth A. Castelli teaches Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power, co-author of The Postmodern Bible, and co-editor of Reimagining Christian Origins.

Rosamond C. Rodman is a doctoral candidate in the Religion Department at Columbia University.

Acknowledgments

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Permissions Credits

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Introduction

``Women, Gender, Religion: Troubling Categories and Transforming Knowledge''

3

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Elizabeth A. Castelli

Part I: Categories of Analysis and Critique: ``Gender,'' ``Religion,'' ``Feminism''

``What's in a Name? Exploring the Dimensions of What `Feminist Studies in Religion' Means'' (1995)

29

(5)

Miriam Peskowitz

``Weaving the Fabric of Our Lives'' (1997)

34

(6)

Carol P. Christ

``Unweaving: A Response to Carol P. Christ'' (1997)

40

(6)

Miriam Peskowitz

``Reweaving'' (2001)

46

(3)

Carol P. Christ

```Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word'' (1991)

49

(27)

Donna J. Haraway

``The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yoruba Language, Orature, and World-Sense'' (1997)

76

(22)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

``Snakes Alive: Resituating the Moral in the Study of Religion'' (1998)

98

(21)

Robert A. Orsi

``Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism'' (1999)

119

(30)

Minoo Moallem

Part II: Origins, Identities, and Appropriations

``Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character'' (1987)

149

(25)

Mieke Bal

``Sacrifice as Remedy for Having Been Born of Woman'' (1985)

174

(21)

Nancy Jay

```Shahbano''' (1989)

195

(21)

Zakia Pathak

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

``A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern'' (1994)

216

(21)

Helene P. Foley

``On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism'' (1999)

237

(20)

Laura E. Donaldson

Part III: Gender and Religious Experience: Interdisciplinary Approaches

``Margery Kempe Answers Back'' (1999)

257

(31)

Carolyn Dinshaw

``Sexology and the Occult: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Theosophy's New Age'' (1997)

288

(22)

Joy Dixon

``Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson'' (1999)

310

(21)

Katherine Clay Bassard

``The Woman Who Wanted to Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk-Possession in a Hasidic Community'' (1985)

331

(15)

Yoram Bilu

``The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia'' (1988)

346

(23)

Aihwa Ong

Part IV: Gender, Religion, and Body Politics

``From a `Pot of Filth' to a `Hedge of Roses' (and Back): Changing Theorizations of Menstruation in Judaism'' (1997)

369

(20)

Jonah Steinberg

``Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity'' (1995)

389

(31)

Mary Rose D'Angelo

``The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women'' (1997)

420

(27)

Homa Hoodfar

``Women Who Walk on Water: Working across `Race' in Women Against Fundamentalism'' (1997)

447

(18)

Clara Connolly

Pragna Patel

``Agency, Activism, and Agendas'' (1998)

465

(27)

Patricia Jeffery

``Tender Warriors'' (1997)

492

(26)

Linda Kintz

``Getting Religion'' (1999)

518

(13)

Janet R. Jakobsen

Ann Pellegrini

Part V: Gender and Religion in the Politics of the Academy

``The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion'' (1999)

531

(16)

Judith Plaskow

Contributors

547

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