Women and Religious Traditions

By Leona Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young

Book Overview

This text looks at women and religion in a wide range of international contexts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Aboriginal religions, and new religions that focus on the Goddess. Each chapter is organized around common themes and two case studies of experiences of religious women in North America are included.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195417542
• ISBN13: 9780195417548
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Feminist's Guide to learning the essentials

This book was purchased as a textbook for my Women in Religion class. It is a very feministic book, as the title may suggest. However, it does go into a lot of history of Women in various religions and their roles within them.