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Genre/Form: | Encyclopedias History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Women in world religions Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2018] (DLC) 2018039892 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan J De Gaia |
ISBN: | 9781440848490 1440848491 9781440848513 1440848513 9781440848520 1440848521 |
OCLC Number: | 1049575864 |
Awards: | Winner of 2020 Outstanding Reference Resource 2020 (United States) Winner of Best Reference Book of 2018 2019 (United States) |
Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Volume 1: African religions to Hinduism. African religions ; Ancient religions ; Baha'i ; Buddhism ; Christianity ; Confucianism ; Daoism ; Hinduism -- Volume 2: Indigenous religions to Spirituality. Indigenous religions; Islam ; Jainism ; Judaism ; Paganism ; Shinto ; Sikhism ; Spirituality. |
Responsibility: | Susan de-Gaia, editor. |
Abstract:
Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.
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"The set will be useful for those seeking information about women in a particular faith..." - Choice "Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions is a good starting point for students, and academic and large public libraries will want to add this to their collections." - Booklist "Overall, the work should be commended as a worthy addition to religious studies reference material at the college level, with the caveat that many of the definitions emphasize boldness over nuance, and any research project should utilize additional scholarly articles and monographs for more a richer perspective." - ARBA "Essential for academic and religious institutions." - Library Journal Read more...
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Women in World Religions Delivers the Depth of Woman’s Soul
This encyclopedia e-book offers flexibility through a buttons-sidebar on each page, allowing you to extract and save...
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This encyclopedia e-book offers flexibility through a buttons-sidebar on each page, allowing you to extract and save or print. The sidebar also links back to the Table of Contents for ease in locating sections and entries that interest you. Editor Susan de Gaia succeeded in unifying the voices of 125 authors from 16 countries worldwide into a focused, scholarly resource. Through the diversity of authorial religious and spiritual traditions, the depth of woman’s soul is sounded. The editor’s author page on Amazon is found here:
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Susan-de-Gaia/e/B07L65L8J5/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1">https://www.amazon.com/Susan-de-Gaia/e/B07L65L8J5/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 </a>
To highlight one of the expert contributors to this encyclopedia, from the Ancient Religions section, Viviane Crowley writes on an archetypal divine feminine in the form of Inanna: “Known as Sumer’s Mother Goddess and War Goddess, she was born from a volcano and symbolized the liminal barriers between life and death, earth and underworld” (Page 1:55).
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