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Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Ellison Banks Findly
State University of New York Press
title
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Women, Religion, and Social Change
author
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Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0887060692
print isbn13
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9780887060694
ebook isbn13
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9780585087191
language
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English
subject
Women and religion, Social history.
publication date
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1985
lcc
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BL458.W6 1985eb
ddc
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291.1/78344
subject
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Women and religion, Social history.
Page iv
"The Future," from a triptych entitled "Towards Light." Oil on canvas, Turkman S. S. R. 1970. Painted by Chary Amangeldyev, Art Museum, Ashkabad. The editors would like to thank Mr. Edward Malayan, Soviet Embassy, Washington D.C., for assistance in procuring permission for the use of the cover.
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1985 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck 1935 Women, religion, and social change.
Includes index. 1. Women and religionAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Social historyAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Findly, Ellison Banks. II. Title. BL458.H33 1985 291.1'78344 85-4747 ISBN 0-88706-068-4 ISBN 0-88706-069-2 (pbk.)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
Nancy Falk
xv
I. Women and the Formation of Religious Tradition
The Separation of Women in Rabbinic Judaism
Judith Baskin
3
Women, Religion and Social Change in Early Islam
Jane I. Smith
19
Gargi at the King's Court: Women and Philosophic Innovation in Ancient India
Ellison Banks Findly
37
Nuns and Benefactresses: The Role of Women in the Development of Buddhism
Janice D. Willis
59
Striking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism
Nancy Schuster
87
II. Social Transformation, the Role of Women and Traditional Religious Institutions
The Magdalen: Reflections on the Image of the Saint and Sinner in Christian Art
Jane Dillenberger
115
Page vi
Women and Islamic Art
Walter B. Denny
147
Hindu Paradigms of Women: Images and Values
Sandra P. Robinson
181
Images and Roles of Women in Bengali Vaisnava padavali kirtan
Donna Marie Wulff
217
Sacred Paradoxes: Women and Religious Plurality in Nigeria
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
247
III. Women, Religion and Revolution in the Modern World
Islam, Women and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Arab Thought
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
275
Woman's Place and the Place of Women in the Iranian Revolution
William R. Darrow
307
Religious Aspects of Women's Role in the Nicaraguan Revolution
Pauline Turner
321
Goddesses, Mothers, and Heroines: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the Early Nationalist Movement
Lou Ratt
351
The Soong Sisters and China's Revolutions, 1911-1936
Michael E. Lestz
377
IV. Women, Religion and the Transformation of Society in North America
Iroquois Religion and Women in Historical Perspective
Annemarie A. Shimony .
397
Page vii
Spirits Defend the Rights of Women: Spiritualism and Changing Sex Roles in Nineteenth-Century America
Ann D. Braude
419
From Shackles to Liberation: Religion, the Grimk Sisters and Dissent
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