Many feminists today are challenging the outmoded aspects of
both the conventions and the study of religion in radical ways.
Canadian feminists are no exception.
"Gender, Genre and Religion" is the outcome of a research
network of leading women scholars organized to survey the
contribution of Canadian women working in the field of religious
studies and, further, to "plot the path forward." This collection
of their essays covers most of the major religious traditions and
offers exciting suggestions as to how religious traditions will
change as women take on more central roles.
Feminist theories have been used by all contributors as a
springboard to show that the assumptions of unified monolithic
religions and their respective canons is a fabrication created by a
scholarship based on male privilege. Using gender and genre as
analytical tools, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches and
open up new ways of reading sacred texts. Superb essays by Pamela
Dickey Young, Winnie Tomm, Morny Joy and Marsha Hewitt, among
others, honour the first generation of feminist theologians and
situate the current generation, showing how they have learned from
and gone beyond their predecessors.
The sensitive and original essays in "Gender, Genre and
Religion" will be of interest to feminist scholars and to anyone
teaching women and religion courses.
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