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Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Editat de Maureen Fiedler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2010
This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781596271203
ISBN-10: 1596271205
Pagini: 211
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Seabury Books

Cuprins

Foreword by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Introduction * Acknowledgments * A Word about Interfaith Voices

Chapter 1 - Women in Denominational or Organizational Religious Leadership
. Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church
. Rev. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President, Christian Church/Disciples of Christ, Preacher at Inaugural Service of President Obama
. Bishop Vashti McKenzie, First Woman Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church
. Rev. Susan Andrews: First Woman National Moderator of the Presbyterian Church/USA
. Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America
. Swami Krishna Priya Bognavati: First Woman Hindu Acharya (Teacher/Guide) in the U.S.
. Ishani Chowdury, the "face of Hinduism" in Washington: Director of Public Policy for the Hindu American Foundation
. The Mourchidates of Morocco: Fatima Zahra Salhi, Ilham Chafik, and Nezha Nassi
. Starhawk: Leader of the Earth-Based Wiccan/Goddess Tradition

Chapter 2 - Women Theologians and Scripture Scholars
. Dr. Amy Jill Levine on The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
. Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker on Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire
. Dr. Elaine Pagels on Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
. Dr. Karen King on the Nag Hammadi Library and The Gospel of Judas
. Dr. Julie Galambush on The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book

Chapter 3 - Women in Feminist Theology
. Dr. Mary Hunt and Dr. Judith Plaskow on Christian & Jewish Feminist Theology
. Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether on Goddesses & the Divine Feminine
. Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether and Dr. Delores Williams on Feminist and Womanist Theologies
. Dr. Amina Wadud on Inside the Gender Jihad
. Dr. Elizabeth Johnson on She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
. Dr. Rena Pederson on The Lost Apostle: Searching for the Truth About Junia
. Dr. Phyllis Trible on Hagar, Sarah and Their Children

Chapter 4 - Religious Feminist Activists
. Rabbi Eveline Goodman-Thau, First Woman Orthodox Rabbi
. Aisha Taylor, former Executive Director, Women's Ordination Conference on the Archeological Evidence for Women's Leadership
. Rev. Andrea Johnson, Roman Catholic Woman Bishop
. Rabbi Susan Talve, Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis, MO
. Asra Nomani on Standing Alone at Mecca
. Daisy Khan, Executive Director of ASMA, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and Muslim Women Organizing for Empowerment

Chapter 5 - Women Leaders in Spirituality
. Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB on Called to Question: Her Memoir
. Barbara Brown Taylor on Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
. Ann Lamott on Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
. Immaculee Ilibagiza, on Left to Tell: Finding God in the Rwandan Genocide
. Sharon Salzburg (with Robert Thurman) On Buddhism in America
. Sallie Tisdale on Women of the Way: Buddhist Women though 2500 Years
. LaDonna Harris on Native American Spirituality
. Rev. Dr. Renita Weems on Womanist Spirituality
. Jean Houston on Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to our Inner Life
. Dr. Jeanette Rodriquez on Our Lady of Gaudalupe in Mexican-American Spirituality

Chapter 6 - Women Leaders in Social Justice, Peace and Ecology
. Layli Miller-Muro: Caring About Women's Rights in the Baha'i Tradition
. Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ on The Death of Innocents
. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Reclaiming the Catholic Social Justice Tradition
. Julia Butterfly Hill: Out on a Limb, Saving the Redwoods
. Kim Bobo: Defending the Rights of Working People
. Lutheran Bishop Margaret Payne: Seeking Peace and Human Rights in the Middle East
. Leymah Gbowee and Abigail Disney: Christian and Muslim Women in Liberia "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"

Chapter 7 - Women Leaders in Interfaith Relations
. Diana Eck of the Pluralism Project
. Mary Helene Rosenbaum on the Challenges of Interfaith Marriage
. Dr. Susanna Heschel on the Interfaith friendship of her father and Dr. Martin Luther King
. Ranya Idilby (Muslim), Suzanne Oliver (Christian), Priscilla Warner (Jewish) on The Faith Club - an Interfaith movement in their living rooms
. Kathy Giese, a Christian, Olivia Berardi, a Jew and Nafees Ahmed, a Muslim Conducting Teenage Interfaith Dialogue

Chapter 8 - Women Leaders in Religious Media
. Barbara Bradley Haggerty, NPR Religion Correspondent, On Fingerprints of God (on the Science of Spirituality)
. Krista Tippett On Speaking of Faith

Epilogue