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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
- 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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