Women and religion : critical concepts in religious studies / edited by Pamela Klassen with Shari Golberg and Danielle Lefebvre.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Women, gender, and religion : critical foundations -- Introduction / Pamela E. Klassen -- "Woman" as symbol and women as agents : gendered religious discourses and practices / Susan Starr Sered -- African-American woman's history and the metalanguage of race / Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham -- Gender : a useful category of historical analysis / Joan W. Scott -- Introduction to bodies that matter / Judith Butler -- "...And woman his humanity" : female imagery in the religious writing of the later Middle Ages / Carolyn Walker Bynum -- Mother goose and the voices of women / Wendy Doniger -- From filth to defilement / Julia Kristeva -- World secularisms at the millennium / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Feminist theory and the study of South Asian religions / Karen Pechilis -- The romance of resistance : tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Introduction to the power of denial : Buddhism, purity, and gender / Bernard Faure -- Religious canon and literary identity / Mieke Bal -- Theories of sacrifice / Nancy Jay -- Religious habits / Marjorie Garber -- Commentary from haunted by empire : geographies of intimacy in North American history / Catherine Hall -- Real and imagined women : politics and/of representation / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan --

v. 2. The politics of public and private religion -- Introduction / Pamela E. Klassen -- Li Zhi and John Stuart Mill : a Confucian feminist critique of liberal feminism / Pauline C. Lee -- Household and empire : the materfamilias as Miles Christi in the anonymous Handbook for Gregoria / Kate Cooper -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed / Veena Das -- Monogamy as the law of social life / Nancy F. Cott -- The dasa sil mā̄tā in contemporary Sri Lanka / Tessa Bartholomew -- A mosque of their own : Muslim women, Chinese Islam and sexual equality / Maria Jaschok and Jingjun Shui -- Daily labors / Miriam Peskowitz -- Femminization and its discontents : Torah study as a system for the domination of women / Daniel Boyarin -- Introduction to love between women : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism / Bernadette Brooten -- Female sorcery, material life, and urban community formation / Martha Few -- Contested family : navigating kin and culture in Protestant missions to the Tsimshian, 1857-1896 / Susan Neylan -- Healing hands, healthy bodies : Protestant women and faith healing in Canada and the United States, 1180-1930 / James W. Opp -- Introduction to Jesus in our wombs : embodying modernity in a Mexican convent / Rebecca Lester -- When spirits start veiling : the case of the veiled she-devil in a Muslim town of Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Spiritual, but religious : 'spirituality' among religiously motivated feminist activists / Laurel Zwissler --"Woman" and the "primitive" in Paul Tillich's life and thought : some implications for the study of religion / Tracy Fessenden --

v. 3. Texts, rituals, and authoritative knowledge -- Introduction / Shari Goldberg -- The text and authority / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- Practice, belief, and feminist philosophy of religion / Amy Hollywood -- One plus one makes three : Buddhist gender, monasticism, and the law of the non-excluded middle / Janet Gyatso -- Progressive Muslims and Islamic jurisprudence : the necessity for critical engagement with marriage and divorce law / Kecia Ali -- Her comes Skotsl : renewing halakhah / Rachel Adler -- The subversive nature of virtue in the Mahābhārata : a tale about women, smelly ascetics, and God / Arti Dhand -- The book of Ruth : idyllic revisionism / Ilana Pardes -- Chosen moments : mediation and direct experience in the life of the classical Tamil saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār / Karen Pechilis -- The Daodejing : resources for contemporary feminist thinking / Karyn Lai -- Aunt(y) Jemima in Spiritual Baptist experience in Toronto : spiritual mother or servile woman? / Carol B. Duncan -- Manufacturing a feminized siege mentality : Hindu nationalist paramilitary camps for women in India / Meera Sehgal -- The uses of the supernatural : toward a history of Black women's magical practices / Yvonne Chireau -- The Mapuche man who became a woman shaman : selfhood, gender transgression, and competing cultural norms / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo -- The disabled fetal imaginary / Rayna Rapp --

v. 4. Feminist effects -- Introduction / Danielle Lefebvre -- Sexual politics / Alex Owen -- Feminisms and secularisms / Kathleen Sands -- Gendered religious organizations : the case of Theravada Buddhism in America / Wendy Cadge -- The feminist scholar and the Tkhines / Chava Weissler -- Conclusion to God's Daughters / Marie Griffith -- The scandal of pain in childbirth / Pamela E. Klassen -- Feminist theory, embodiment, and the docile agent : some reflections on the Egyptian Islamic revival / Saba Mahmood -- Gender theory and gendered realities / an exchange between Tamar Ross and Judith Plaskow / Judith Plaskow and Tamar Ross -- Feminism and its burden of birth / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Managing tradition : 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees / Janice Boddy -- Who is authorized to speak? Katherine Mayo and the politics of imperial feminism in British India / Liz Wilson -- Gendered states : rethinking culture as a site of South Asian human rights work / Kamala Visweswaran -- The practice of Mizuko Kuyō and the changing nature of abortion / Helen Hardacre -- Abortion, ambiguity, and exorcism / William R. Lafleur -- Anti-Judaism and postcolonial biblical interpretation / Amy-Jill Levine.