Gender and the Language of Religion

NANCY BERKOWITZ is an Independent Consultant in Research, Measurement and Evaluation in Massachusetts, USAFAZILA BHIMIJI is Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire, UKFRANCIS BRITTO is Professor of Linguistics at Sophia University in Tokyo, JapanDEBRA COHEN is at the Hebrew University, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, USASHARTRIYA COLLIER is at Temple University in Philadelphia, USASAMIRA FARWANEH is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA SAGE GRAHAM is Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, USA TIMOTHY JAY is Professor of Psychology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USAHANNES KNIFFKA is Professor of General and Applied Linguistics at Bonn University, GermanyCHOA-CHIH LIAO is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at National University of Kaohsiung, TaiwanMIRIM MEYERHOFF is Reader in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, UKANNABELLE MOONEY is Research Associate at Cardiff University in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Wales, UKAMY PEEBLES is at the University of Texas at Austin, and Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, USAKALYANI SHABADI is Researcher at the Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,IndiaMÜNEVVER TEKCAN is Assistant Professor in Turkology at Kocaeli University, Turkey

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword; M.Meyerhoff Introduction: The Meeting of Gender, Language, and Religion; A.Julé PART I: GENDER, LANGUAGE PATTERNS, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT An Overview of God and Gender in Religion; M.Tekcan The Gender of God: Judeo-Christian Feminist Debates; F.Britto Asymmetries of Male/Female Representation within Arabic; S.Farwaneh American Women, Their Cursing Habits, and Religiosity; T.Jay PART II: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Women and Men, Langauges and Relgion in Taiwan; C-c.Liao Women's Letters to the Editor: Talking Religion in a Saudi Arabian English Newspaper; H.Kniffka A Cyber-Parish: Gendered Identity Construction in an Online Episcopal Community; S.Graham Language Use and Silence as Morality: Teaching and Lecturing at an Evangelical Theology College; A.Julé The Children of God Who Wouldn't, But Had To; A.Mooney PART III: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Restoring the Broken Image?: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-gay Ministry; A.Peebles "Assalamu Alaikum. Brother, I have a Right to My Opinion on This": British Islamic Women Assert Their Positions in Virtual Space; F.Bhimji "Inshallah, today there will be work": Senegalese Women Entrepreneurs in America Constructing Identities through Language Use and Islamic Practice; S.Collier Gender, Hebrew Language Acquisition, and Religious Values in Jewish High Schools in North America; D.Cohen & N.Berkowitz Speaking Our Gendered Selves: Hinduism and the Indian Woman; K.Shabadi References Index

'On the whole, Allyson Jule's Gender and the Language of Religion represents a useful collection of well-written papers by scholars of varying backgrounds (measurement and evaluation, sociolinguistics, education psychology, language education, theoretical and applied linguistics, and communication). It can easily become a compulsory reading for students in various interdisciplinary studies, people working in the relevant disciplines, and for several others who want to broaden their knowledge on the intersection between religion, language and gender. I enjoyed reading every paper in this collection.' - Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful, The Lingust List