Religion and Gender

Introduction:.
<p>Gender and the Study of Religion: Ursula King.</p>
<p>Part I: Theoretical Reflections: .</p>
<p>1. The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion: June O′Connor.</p>
<p>2. Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies: Rosalind Shaw.</p>
<p>3. Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender: Erin White.</p>
<p>4. Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Problems of Gender and Religion: Penelope Margaret Magee.</p>
<p>5. God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women′s Invocation of the Divine: Morny Joy.</p>
<p>6. The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy: Naomi Goldenberg.</p>
<p>7. Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess: Donate Pahnke.</p>
<p>8. Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo–Feminist Perspective: Felicity Edwards.</p>
<p>Part II: Empirical Investigations:.</p>
<p>9. Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion: Kim Knott.</p>
<p>10. A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion: Ursula King.</p>
<p>11. Women′s Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives: Kari Borresen.</p>
<p>12. Women and New Religious Movements in Africa: Rosalind I. J. Hackett.</p>
<p>13. Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan: Marilyn F. Nefsy.</p>
<p> Notes on Contributors.</p>