Women and indigenous religions / Sylvia Marcos, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marcos, Sylvia.

Series:

Women and religion in the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion.

Women--Religious life.

Women.

Indigenous peoples--Religion.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2010]

Contents:

Cover

Women and Indigenous Religions

Contents

Introduction: Perspectives of Indigenous Religious Traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Australia

PART I. WOMEN, FAMILY, AND ENVIRONMENT

1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories: Kungun and Yunnan

2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru

PART II. SOCIOECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND AUTHORITY

3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas

4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlán, Mexico: Women Priestesses in Popular Religion

PART III. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT

5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Incarnation in Korea and Vietnam

6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis in the Highlands of Northeast India

7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth Imagery

PART IV. SEXUALITY, POWER, AND VULNERABILITY

8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood

9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their Identities in Contemporary Mexico

PART V. WOMEN, WORLD VIEW, AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Women's Quest for a Gendered Spirituality

11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and Indigenous Healing

Suggested Reading

About the Editor and Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780275991579

0275991571

9780313082733

0313082731

OCLC:

531718810