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Kayo Denda
Women's Studies Librarian
kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu
August 2008
Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Women and Religion:
Religious Activism

Religious activism is here broadly defined to include women practicing and theorizing religion in both sanctioned and subversive ways that have to do with addressing women's status in relation to social, political, economic, intellectual, and spiritual issues. Listed are sample holdings available through the RU Libraries system.

Civil and Human Rights

Pandita Ramabai through her own words : selected works / compiled and edited with translations by Meera Kosambi, 2000. Text.

The Tension between women's rights and religions: the case of Malaysia / Sharon A. Bong, 2006. Text.

Witnessing and testifying: Black women, religion, and civil rights / Ross, Rosetta E., 2003. Text.

Nuns, Missionaries, Women Religious, and Religious Laywomen

The Arts of ministry / edited by Christie Cozad Neuger, 1996. Text.

The blindfold's eyes : my journey from torture to truth / Dianna Ortiz with Patricia Davis, 2002. Text.

Crown and Veil: female monasticism from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger & Susan Marti, 2008. Text.

Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's betrayal of American nuns / Kenneth A. Briggs, 2006. Text.

The fighting nun : my story / Margherita Marchione, 2000. Text.

Mission girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900-1960 / Choo, Christine, 2001. Text.

Nation builders: female activism in the nation of Islam, 1960-1970 / Cynthia S'thembile West, 1994. Text.

No cross, no crown : Black nuns in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Mary Bernard Deggs; Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan, eds., 2001. Text.

Nuns: A history of convent life / Silvia Evangelisti 2007. Text.

Plenty good room: Women versus male power in the Black church / Marcia Y. Riggs, 2003. Text.

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and women's rights in nineteenth-century America / Ann Braude, 1989. Text.

Singing to the Jinas : Jain laywomen, Ma·n·da·l singing, and the negotiations of Jain devotion / M. Whitney Kelting, 2001.

Sisters : Catholic nuns and the making of America / John J. Fialka, 2003. Text.

Sorrow mountain : the journey of a Tibetan warrior nun / Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelley, 2000. Text.

Visionary women: ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England / Mack, Phyllis, 1992. Text.

Visions of prophecy (mystic women of the middle ages) / Redcanoe Productions, Inc., 2000. Videorecording.

The web of Indian life / the Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble) of Ramakrishna-Viveknanda, 1904. Microform.

Woman, church, and state: the original expose of male collaboration against the female sex / Matilda Joslyn, 1980.

Women, men and spiritual power: female saints and their male collaborators / John. W. Coakley, 2006. Text.

Women's religious activity in the Roman republic / Celia E. Schultz, 2006. Text.

Women's renunciation in South Asia: nuns, yoginis, saints and sinners / edited by Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold, 2006. Text.

Women's wages, women's worth: politics, religion, and equity / Fredelle Zaiman Spiegel, 1994. Text.

Fundamentalisms and Evangelicalism

Changing women, changing worlds: evangelical women in church, community and politics / Porter, Fran, 2002. Text.

Women and revivalism in the West: choosing 'fundamentalism' in a liberal democracy / Myfanwy Franks, 2001. Text.

Post-Colonial Theory

Gendering the spirit: women and religion and the post-colonial response / Ahmed, Durre, ed., 2002. Text.

Postcolonialism, feminism, and religious discourse / Donaldson, Laura E. and Kwok Pui-Lan, eds., 2002. Text.

Inter-religious dialogue and cross-fertilization

Religious feminism and the future of the planet: a Christian-Buddhist conversation / Gross, Rita M. and Rosemary Radford Ruether, 2001. Text.

Women, religion and culture in Iran / Ansari, Sarah and Vanessa Martin, eds., 2002. Text.

Subject Headings

Laywomen
Monasticism
Political prisoners
Religious teachers
Womanist theology
Women's rights

Created by A. Bates, Ph.D., Religion and Society, Fall 2003
 
URL: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/womens_studies/religion_activism.shtml
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