Theoretical perspectives. Introduction to part I -- Where have we been? Where do we need to go?: women's studies and gender in religion and feminist thought -- Postcolonial and gendered reflection: challenges for religious studies -- Rethinking subjectivity in the gender-oriented study of religions: Kristeva and the 'subject-in-process' -- On understanding that the struggle for truth is moral and spiritual -- Religious identity and the ethics of representation: the study of religion and gender in the secular academy -- Raced and gendered perspectives: towards the epidermalization of subjectivity in religious studies theory -- Historical and textual perspectives. Introduction to Part II. -- From women's history to feminist theology: gender, witness and canoncity in the religious narration of the Holocaust -- Rethinking religion in gender history: historiographical and methodological reflections -- The gendering of missionary imperialism: the search for an integrated methodology -- Gender archaology and paleochristianity -- 'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus': on the relationship between religion, gender and space -- Biblical gender strategies: the case of Abraham's masculinity -- Cultural and contextual perspectives. Introduction to Part III -- Who are Muslims? Questions of identity, gender and culture in research methodologies -- Reflexive transformations: research comments on me(n), feminist philosophy and the thealogical imagination -- Why difference matters: lesbian and gay perspectives on religion and gender -- Indian Dalit women and the Bible: hermeneutical and methodological reflections -- Race, gender, class and the theology of empowerment: an Indian perspective -- An Asian postcolonial and feminist methodology: ethics as a recognition of limits -- Whose face in the mirror? Personal and postcolonial obstacles in researching Africa's contemporary women's theological voices.
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