Arvind Sharma & Katherine K. Young 
Feminism and World Religions 

CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books



Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world’s religions from a feminist perspective by leading women scholars. Feminism and World Religions contains chapters on Hinduism by Vasudha Narayanan, Buddhism by Rita M. Gross, Confucianism by Terry Woo, Taoism by Karen Mc Laughlin and Eva Wong, Judaism by Ellen M. Umansky, Christianity by Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Islam by Riffat Hassan, along with a general introduction and a postscript by Katherine K. Young and a preface by Arvind Sharma. The fact that these authors share a dual but undivided commitment both to themselves as women and to their traditions as adherents imparts to their voices a prophetic quality, and if Mahatma Gandhi is to be believed, even scriptural value.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Preface


Arvind Sharma

Introduction
Katherine K. Young

1. Brimming with Bhakti, Embodiments of Shakti:
Devotees, Deities, Performers, Reformers, and Other Women of Power in the Hindu Tradition
Vasudha Narayanan

2. Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism
Rita M. Gross

3. Confucianism and Feminism
Terry Woo

4. Feminism and/in Taoism
Karen Laughlin And Eva Wong

5. Feminism in Judaism
Ellen M. Umansky

6. Feminism in World Christianity
Rosemary Radford Ruether

7. Feminism in Islam
Riffat Hassan

Postscript
Katherine K. Young

Notes on Contributors

Name Index

Terms Index

Subject Index

Sobre o autor

Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at Mc Gill University. He has edited several books, among them,
Women in World Religions; Religion and Women; and Today’s Woman in World Religions, all published by SUNY Press.
Katherine K. Young is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Mc Gill University. She has edited several books, among them (with Harold Coward and Julius Lipner)
Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia, published by SUNY Press, and
Images of the Feminine.