An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and About Women - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0824514181 ISBN 13: 9780824514181

Casa editrice: Herder & Herder, 1994

Riassunto

This now standard text offers engaging readings from a wide variety of sources by and about women. Designed for women's studies and religion courses everywhere.

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An innovative, ecumenical sourcebook. Readings from the world's 'big seven'--Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism--accompany female-specific text from the Near East, Greece, and Rome of antiquity, as well as from Northern European religions, shamanism, smaller tribal religions and more recent alternative movements. --Publishers Weekly

A comprehensive comparative sourcebook on women and religion, bringing together readings by and about women from the primary texts of the world's religions--not only Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, but also the religions of northern Europe, the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, shamanism and tribal religions, as well as more recent alternative religious movements. --Booknews

Product Description:

In 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her "Revising Committee" produced The Woman's Bible, a commentary on passages in the Bible that "do not exalt or dignify women" and "those also in which women are prominent by exclusion." The women's movement has come a long way in the last hundred years, but so too have our knowledge and appreciation of religions other than Judaism and Christianity. Serinity Young's Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women is the first comprehensive comparative sourcebook on women and religion. It makes available readings by and about women from the primary texts of the world's religions. The religions treated include not only the "big seven, " Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, but the religions of northern Europe, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, shamanism and tribal religions, as well as more recent alternative religious movements. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the religion in question, providing a historical overview with particular regard to women. Then follow representative texts about women (each with its own introduction) from works that are central to their respective traditions. These texts include creation stories, biographies of founders (in which women often play a prominent role), law codes, folklore and fairy tales, the "texts" of tribal peoples, and works explicitly by women. Folklore and fairy tales have particular importance in this book because they generally reveal the beliefs of the "little tradition, " which are often in the hands of women, while the "great tradition" is represented by the male-dominated forms of orthodoxy. The works by women here take many forms fromtheological treatises to mystical poems to poems mourning the loss of a child or husband to the matter-of-fact statements by tribal women, such as Nisa, expressing the uncertainties of any religious knowing. Many of the texts included in this anthology are not only "representative texts a

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• Editore: Herder & Herder
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0824514181
• ISBN 13: 9780824514181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Redattore: Young Serinity