Contents:
Introduction : the complexity of symbols / Caroline Walker Bynum
pt. 1.
Gender as culturally constructed meaning: Iranian sofreh : from collective to female ritual / Laal Jamzadeh and Margaret Mills
Ambiguous gender : male initiation in a northern Thai Buddhist society / Charles F. Keyes
Men, women, and ghosts in Tainwanese folk religion / Stevan Harrell
The priesthood and motherhood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Carolyn M. Wallace
pt. 2.
Gender as polysemic symbol: The portrayal of a female renouncer in a Tamil Buddhist text / Paula Richman
Gender and cosmology in Chinese correlative thinking / Alison H. Black
Uses of gender imagery in ancient Gnostic texts / Michael A. Williams
pt. 3.
Gender as point-of-view: Images of gender in the poetry of Krishna / John Stratton Hawley
" ... And woman his humanity" : female imagery in the religious writing of the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum
Male and female perspectives on a psychoanalytic myth / John E. Toews.
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