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Women and new and Africana religions / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise C. Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo, editors.

Van Pelt Library BL625.7 .W627 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian.
Martin, Darnise C.
Olademo, Oyeronke
Series:
Women and religion in the world
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Religious life.
Women.
Women and religion.
Physical Description:
xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2010]
Contents:
Introduction / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo
Women, family, and environment
"That girl is poison" : white supremacy, anxiety, and the conflation of women and food in the nation of Islam / Stephen C. Finley and Margarita L. Simon
Receiving, embodying, and sharing "divine wisdom" : women in the nation of gods and earths / Felicia M. Miyakawa
Socioeconomics, politics, and authority
The living shrine : life and meaning in Oyotunji / Yeyefini Efunbolade
Vodou : a heritage of power / Susheel Bibbs
Mind, body, and spirit
Serving the spirits, healing the person : women in Afro-Brazilian religions / Kelly E. Hayes
Sacred dance-drumming : reciprocation and contention within African belief systems in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay area / Halifu Osumare
Sexuality, power, and vulnerability
To have and to hold : possession performance in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha / Katherine Hagedorn
African descendent women and religion : diaspora in Oriente Cuba / Jualynne E. Dodson
Religion and women's sexuality in Africa : the intersection of power and vulnerability / Oyeronke Olademo
Women, worldview, and religious practice
A religion of the interstices : Asian Pacific American women and multiple religious practices / Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier
Diana's grove : an emergent, integrative spiritual movement / Susan E. Hill, John K. Simmons, and Cynthea Jones
The good wife : the religious experience of women in scientology / Dawn L. Hutchinson
Senses of place : women greening communities / Kimberly Whitney
African women in traditional religions : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780275991562
0275991563
9780313082726
0313082723
OCLC:
367420076

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