Gender, Genre and Religion

Morny Joy is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary. She has published many articles on women and religion, feminist theory and contemporary continental philosophy.Eva Neumair-Dargyay is Professor and Acting Chair of Comparative Studies in Literature, Film and Religion at the University of Alberta. She has published four single-authored books and one co-authored one on various subjects of Tibetan religion and culture.

• Table of Contents for Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections , edited by Morny Joy and Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay Foreward Preface About the Authors I. Introduction Introduction | Morny Joy and Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay II. Setting the Theme Chapter 1. Framing Discourse for the Future | Mary Gerhart III. Gendered Perspectives Chapter 2. Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics | Eileen Schuller Chapter 3. The Feminist Challenge to Judaism | Norma Baumel Joseph Chapter 4. Feminist Theology | Pamela Dickey Young Chapter 5. Le Concept âexpériences des femmesâ dans lâavènement dâune théologie féministe | Monique Dumais Chapter 6. Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Feminist Atheistâs Perspective on Recent Work | Naomi R. Goldenberg Chapter 7. Aboriginal Women and Religion: Anu Kan San Tok Ahe Mani Win | Doreen Spence Chapter 8. The Impact of Social Change on Muslim Women | Sheila McDonough IV. Genre Explorations Chapter 9. Buddhist Thought from a Feminist Perspective | Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay Chapter 10. Upholding Norms of Hindu Womanhood: An Analysis Based on Reviews of Hindi Cinema | Katherine K. Young Chapter 11. Protection and Humanity: A Case Study of Feminine Spirituality in Thirteenth-Century Marseilles | Francine Michaud Chapter 12. Hsing-Shin Yin-Yuan: Karmic Versus Psychological Views of a Manâs Relationships with His Women | Fan Pen Chen Chapter 13. Multidialogical Spiralling for Healing and Justice | Mariyln J. Legge Chapter 14. A Religious Philosophy of Self | Winnie Tomm Chapter 15. The Negative Power of âthe Feminineâ: Herbert Marcuse, Mary Daly and Gynocentric Feminism | Marsha Hewitt Chapter 16. And What if Truth Were a Woman? | Morny Joy Index About the Authors Norma Baumel Joseph is a member of the faculty in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal. For the past eighteen years she has been teaching, lecturing and publishing on women and Judaism, Jewish law and ethics and women and religion. She has lobbied for Jewish womenâs rights in a variety of contexts, forming local and international groups to further those goals. Norma appeared in and was consultant to the film Half the Kingdom . âMostly, I love teaching, especially teaching women. There is so much on our agenda, we have so much to do; but first we must learn, reflect and study. And then we must share, empower and act.â Fan Pen Chen was born in Taiwan. She grew up in Taiwan, Libya and the US. She received her BA from Yale University and completed her MA, MPhil and PhD in Chinese literature at Columbia University. Having taught at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta, Fan is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at SUNY-Albany. Her numerous articles in both English and Chinese deal with the treatment of female personae in a wide range of genres of Chinese literature from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries. Pamela Dickey Young is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Dean of Women at Queenâs University. She is the author of Feminist Theology/Christian Theology (Fortress, 1990) and of many scholarly articles. In 1991â92 she was the President of the Canadian Theological Society. Her current research interests include feminism and religious pluralism and feminist christology. Among recent articles she has published are: âDiversity in Feminist Christology,â Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses, 21/1 (1992): 81-90; âTheology and Commitment,â Toronto Journal of Theology, 9, 2 (Fall 1993): 169-176; âUbi Christus Ibi Ecclesia: Some Christological Themes Relevant in Formulating New Ecclesiologies,â in New Wine: The Challenge of the Emerging Ecclesiologies to Church Renewal , ed. H.S. Wilson and Nyambura Njoroge (Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1994), 63-74; Christ in a Post-Christian World: How Can We Believe in Jesus Christ When Those Around Us Believe Differently Or Not At All? (Minneapolis: Fortress, Spring 1995); âBeyond Moral Influence to an Atoning Life,â Theology Today (forthcoming). Monique Dumais teaches in Theology and in Ethics at the Université du Québec a Rimouski. After studies in Rimouski, her birthplace, she attended Harvard Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she obtained a PhD in Theology in 1977. Her research is mainly focused on Women and Religion, Women and the Church in Quebec and also on Ethics in Feminist discourses. In 1976, she founded, with three other women, a Christian feminist collective in Quebec called Lâautreparole. She has published many articles and books on her topics of research with Editions Paulines: Les femmes dans la Bible (1985); Experiences et Interpellations (1985); Souffles de femmes (1989); and with Marie-Andree Roy, Lectures feministes de la religion (1989) and Les droits des femmes (1992). Mary Gerhart is Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The author of The Question of Belief in Literary Criticism: An Introduction to the Hermeneutical Theory of Paul Ricoeur (1979), she has co-authored Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious Understanding (with A.M. Russell, 1984) and co-edited Morphologies of Faith (with Anthony C. Yu, 1992). Her most recent book is Genre Choices: Gender Questions (University of Oklahoma, 1992), a study of the reciprocal ways in which genre and gender shape each other. She has served as editorial chair of Religious Studies Review and is on the editorial boards of several other journals. Naomi R. Goldenberg is Professor of Psychology of Religion and former director of Womenâs Studies at the University of Ottawa. She attended Princeton University and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and received her doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion and Psychoanalysis (New York: Crossroad, 1993); The End of God: Important Directions for a Feminist Critique of Religion in the Work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1982); and Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979). Marsha Hewitt is Associate Professor of Social Ethics and Contemporary Theology at Trinity College and teaches in The Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Her publications include From Theology to Social Theory: Juan Luis Segundo and the Theology of Liberation (Peter Lang, 1990) and Toward a Feminist Critical Theory of Religion (Fortress Press, 1995). She is editor of the series, Feminist Critical Studies in Religion and Culture (Peter Lang). Her recent articles include: âCyborgs, Drag Queens and Goddessesâ and âIllusions of Freedom: Some Regressive Implications of Postmodernism.â Morny Joy is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. She received her PhD in Philosophy of Religion from McGill University. Her recent publications include âDivine Reservations,â in Derrida and Negative Theology (SUNY, 1992) and âFeminism and the Self,â Theory and Psychology 3/3 (1993), and âGod and Gender: Some Reflections on Womenâs Explorations of the Divine,â in Religion and Gender (Blackwells, 1994). Moray is currently President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion. Marilyn J. Legge is McDougald Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Andrewâs College, Saskatoon. Her publications include The Grace of Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992) and âLiberation Ecclesiology: The Church in Solidarity,â in Cadorette et al., Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992). Her commitment to healing and justice is expressed through a diversity of networks, friendships and feminist activities. Francine Michaud is Assistant Professor in the History Department, University of Calgary. She studied at the Université dâAix-Marseilles and the Centre of Medieval Studies in Toronto, before obtaining her PhD from Laval University. Her area of interest is social and religious history in the High Middle Ages. Her dissertation on wills in Marseilles at the end of the thirteenth century has been published by the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, in 1994. Sheila McDonough was born in Calgary, and received her doctorate from the Institute of Islamic Studies in McGill University. She taught for three years in the Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan, and for one year in the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, England. Since graduating, she has been teaching World Religions, Islam, and Women and Religion among other subjects at Concordia University, Montreal. She was one of the professors who introduced Womenâs Studies into the curriculum at Concordia in the early seventie

"These essays clearly illustrate the diversity not only within religious studies but within feminist studies in Canada. The book exemplifies the conviction of the editors that different methods and genres need to be employed in response to changing dimensions of the problem of gender in religion. The book provides a rich resource for all students of religion." -- Ellen M. Leonard, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto School of Theology -- Toronto Journal of Theology