Women and New and Africana Religions

Women and New and Africana Religions
ISBN-10
0313082723
ISBN-13
9780313082726
Category
Religion
Pages
353
Language
English
Published
2009-10-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Oyeronke Olademo, Darnise Martin

Description

This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice. This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum. In Women and New and Africana Religions, readers hear from women from a number of religious/spiritual persuasions around the world, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North America. These voices form the core of remarkable explorations of family and environment, social and spiritual empowerment, sexuality and power, and ways in which worldview informs roles in religion and society. Each essay includes scene-setting historical and social background information and fascinating insights from renowned scholars sharing their own research and firsthand experiences with their subjects.

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