Women, Religion, and Social Change

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. Ellison Banks Findly is Professor of Religion and International Studies at Trinity College.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionNancy FalkI. Women and the Formation of Religious TraditionThe Separation of Women in Rabbinic JudaismJudith BaskinWomen, Religion and Social Change in Early IslamJane I. SmithGargi at the King's Court: Women and Philosophic Innovation in Ancient IndiaEllison Banks FindlyNuns and Benefactresses: The Role of Women in the Development of BuddhismJanice D. WillisStriking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese BuddhismNancy SchusterII. Social Transformation, the Role of Women and Traditional Religious InstitutionsThe Magdalen: Reflections on the Image of the Saint and Sinner in Christian ArtJane DillenbergerWomen and Islamic ArtWalter B. DennyHindu Paradigms of Women: Images and ValuesSandra P. RobinsonImages and Roles of Women in Bengali Vaisnava padavali kirtanDonna Marie WulffSacred Paradoxes: Women and Religious Plurality in NigeriaRosalind I. J. HackettIII. Women, Religion and Revolution in the Modern WorldIslam, Women and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Arab ThoughtYvonne Yazbeck HaddadWoman's Place and the Place of Women in the Iranian RevolutionWilliam R. DarrowReligious Aspects of Women's Role in the Nicaraguan RevolutionPauline TurnerGoddesses, Mothers, and Heroines: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the Early Nationalist MovementLou RattéThe Soong Sisters and China's Revolutions, 1911-1936Michael E. LestzIV. Women, Religion and the Transformation of Society in North AmericaIroquois Religion and Women in Historical PerspectiveAnnemarie A. Shimony .Spirits Defend the Rights of Women: Spiritualism and Changing Sex Roles in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAnn D. BraudeFrom Shackles to Liberation: Religion, the Grimké Sisters and DissentFrank G. KirkpatrickThe American Catholic Bishops and Woman: From the Nineteenth Amendment to ERAAntoinette LadarolaFeminism and the Reevaluation of Women's Roles within American Jewish LifeEllen M. UmanskyContributorsIndex