Gendering the spirit : women and religion & the post-colonial response

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Title:

Gendering the spirit : women and religion & the post-colonial response

Author:

Ahmed, Durre S.

ISBN:

9781842770269

9781842770276

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave, c2002.

Physical Description:

xi, 244 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Women and Religion: Alternative Perspectives -- Introduction: The Last Frontier / The Goddess - Woman Equation in Sakta Tantras / Women in the Catholic Church / Women, Psychology and Religion / The Hidden Woman and the Feminine -- The Forgotten Women of Anuradhapura: 'Her Story' Replaced by 'History' / 'Mother' Victoria Vera Piedad as a Mutya Figure: A Study of an Archetypal Image of the self / Suprema Isabel Suarez / Parallel Worlds of Madhobi Ma, 'Nectar Mother': My Encounter with a Twentieth-Century Tantric Saint / 'Real' Men, Naked Women and the Politics of Paradise: The Archetype of Lal Ded / Perspectives on Violence -- Righteous Violence and Non-Violence: An Inseparable Dyad of Hindu Tradition / Theological Reflections on Violence Against Women (A Catholic Perspective) / Violence and the Feminine in Islam: A Case Study of the Zikris

Subject Term:

Women and religion.

Women -- Religious life.

Added Author:

Ahmed, Durre S.

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Summary

This book is about the devotional subcultures which women have always created. Its authors draw their evidence and inspiration from the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Christian traditions of Asia, in particular.

Here we find women as healers, goddesses, saints, gurus, nuns and heretics. One thing these remarkable women all share is their defiance of orthodoxy and fundamentalist interpretations oppressive of women. Instead they have created religious alternatives which appeal profoundly to huge numbers of women. Not that these alternatives, as the authors who have written this book show, are accepted by the mainly male religious establishment. Indeed women's rejection of patriarchal interpretations of religion and their creative revising of religion in their daily spiritual practice can be a very dangerous activity.

In addition to fascinating glimpses of little known aspects of the feminine within the great religions, this book is also a reflection of the newly emerging spirituality of women in Asia as they experience and respond to the political and social injustices they confront.