Her Voice, Her Faith: Women Speak On World Religions - Hardcover

Young, Katherine; Sharma, Arvind; Young, Katherine K.

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9780813365916: Her Voice, Her Faith: Women Speak On World Religions

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ISBN 10: 0813365910 ISBN 13: 9780813365916

Publisher: Basic Books, 2003

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In Her Voice, Her Faith , nine pre-eminent women scholars explore their own religious lives and the religious experiences of women throughout history. Vasudha Narayanan illustrates how - through sacred altars in each home, lyrical songs, and meaningful dances - a girl first learns what it means to be a Hindu. Susannah Heschel recounts her difficult desire to say the Jewish prayer of Kaddish after the passing of her father. Eva Wong travels to the high mountains of the Taoist White Cloud Monastery in China to join the many women who reached the highest levels of spiritual cultivation. In covering Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Goddess and Wiccan beliefs, Her Voice, Her Faith evocatively reveals how religious traditions enter and shape women's lives.

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Katherine K. Young and Arvind Sharma are professors of religion at McGill University and co-editors of The Annual Review of Women in World Religions . They live in Montreal, Quebec. Katherine K. Young and Arvind Sharma are professors of religion at McGill University and co-editors of The Annual Review of Women in World Religions . They live in Montreal, Quebec.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection of essays is worthwhile in concept. Eight experts with solid scholarly credentials examine the roles played by women in world religions, adding a first-person perspective from their own religious experiences to their essays about women's historically underappreciated and underdocumented participation in religions. This fine idea is, however, unevenly executed, producing essays of mixed quality that suffer from either narrow focus on material from a tradition or underexplained references to a tradition's complex pantheon, teachings or history. Rita Gross's essay on women in Buddhism most successfully mixes discussion of canon, religious teachings, historical practice and contemporary issues. By contrast, Riffat Hassan's essay on women and Islam, with limited scholarly citation and argument about the meaning of pivotal but nonetheless highly selected Qur'anic passages, does not do justice to the vast history of participation by women in this major world religion. Wendy Griffin's piece on goddess spirituality is the most seriously flawed. Its unquantified assertions ("More covens formed"; "More and more women came") about the growth of a minority movement mostly in the past 30 years do not add up to proof of impact on, and reflection of, women's lived experience-96 footnotes notwithstanding. An essay on new religious movements-including modern goddess spirituality-or world indigenous religions would have offered a more capacious and scholarly framework for documenting women's religious practices, beliefs and leadership across the boundaries of time and culture.
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