Religion and women / edited by Arvind Sharma ; introduction by Katherine K. Young. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharma, Arvind.

Series:

McGill studies in the history of religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Contents:

Introduction / Katherine K. Young

At the beginning was woman : women in Native American religious traditions / Kathleen M. Dugan

Women in African religions / Rosalind I.J. Hackett

Women in Shinto : images remembered / Michiko Yusa

Women in Jainism / Nalini Balbir

Outside the discipline, inside the experience : women in Zoroastrianism / Ketayun H. Gould

Women in Sikhism / Rajkumari Shanker

Women in the Baha'i faith / Susan S. Maneck.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4384-1960-0

0-585-06045-2