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Sacred Texts "Religions of the Book" are those traditions founded primarily around a sacred text or series of texts. The three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are generally defined under this rubric. Eastern traditions, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, which include significant sacred texts are also represented here. Listed are sample holdings available through the RU Libraries system. BuddhismBeing a Buddhist nun: the struggle for enlightenment in the Himalayas / Kim Gutschow, 2004. Text. Buddhist nuns in Taiwan and Sri Lanka: a critique of the feminist perspective / Wei-Yi Chang, 2007. Text. Daughters of emptiness: poems of Chinese Buddhist nuns / Beata Grant, 2003. Text. Himalayan hermitess: the life of a Tibetan Buddhist nun / Kurtis R. Schaeffer, 2004. Text. I give you my life: the autobiography of a Western Buddhist nun / Ayya Khema, translated by Sherab Chödzin Kohn. 1998. Text. The Journey of one Buddhist nun: Even against the wind / Sid Brown, 2001. Text. Kuan-yin: the Chinese transformation of Avalokiteshvara / Yü , Chüng-fang, 2001. Text. Lives of the nuns : biographies of Chinese Buddhist nuns from the fourth to sixth centuries : a translation of the Pi-ch'iu-ni chuan / compiled by Shih Pao-ch'ang ; translated by Kathryn Ann Tsai, 1994. Out of the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women / edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo, 2006. Text. The power of denial : Buddhism, purity, and gender / Bernard Faure, 2003. Text. Satya: A prayer for the enemy / a film by Ellen Bruno, 1993. Video-recording. Sorrow mountain: The journey of a Tibetan warrior nun / Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelley, 2000. Text. Traveller in space: gender, identity, and Tibetan Buddhism / Campbell, June, 2002. Text. Women of the way: discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom / Sallie Tisdale, 2006. Text. Women under the Bo tree: Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka / Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, 1994. Text. Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's women: tradition, revision, renewal / Ellison Banks Findly, 2000. Text. Chinese and East Asian Religions (e.g., Confucian, Taoist)Immortal sisters: secrets of Taoist women / translated and edited by Thomas Cleary, 1989. Text. The sage and the second sex : Confucianism, ethics, and gender / Chenyang Li, ed., 2000. Text. Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan / Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott, eds., 2003. Text. Christianity (e.g., Protestant, Catholic)Bible and church degrade woman / Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1896?. Microform. The female reader at the Round Table: religion and women in three contemporary Arthurian texts / Hildebrand, Kristina, 2001. Text. Feminine matters: women's religious practices in a Portuguese town / Gemzöe, Lena, 2000. Text. Images of the feminine in Gnosticism / edited by Karen L. King, 2000. Text. IslamBecoming Muslim: Western women's conversions to Islam / Anna Mansson McGuinty, 2006. Text. Daughters of Abraham : feminist thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito, eds., 2001. Text. Feminism and Islam: legal and literary perspectives / edited by Mai Yamani, with additional editorial assistance from Andrew Allen, 2006. Text. Gender and self in Islam / Etin Anwar, 2006. Text. The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam: a mosque of their own / Jaschok, Maria, 2000. Text. Human rights and religion: the Islamic headscarf debate in Europe / Dominic McGoldrick, 2006. Text. Inside the gender Jihad: Women's reform in Islam / Amina Wadud, 2006. Text. Muslim feminism and feminist movement. South Asia / Abida Samiuddin, R. Khanam, ed., 2002. Text. Note: this is part of a series that includes volumes on South-East Asia, Central Asia, and Africa. The Muslim veil in North America : issues and debates / Sajida Alvi, Homa Hoodfar and Sheila McDonough, eds., 2003. Text. Muslim women in the United Kingdom and beyond : experiences and images / Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn, eds., 2003. Text. One foot in heaven: Narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / Karen Willemsce, 2007. Text. Performing Islam: gender and ritual in Iran / Isam Torab, 2007. Text. Price of honor : Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world / Jan Goodwin, 2003. Text. "The strength in the song: Muslim personhood, audible capital and Hausa women's performance of the Hajj," by Barbara Cooper, in Gendered modernities: ethnographic perspectives / Hodgson, Dorothy, ed., 2001. Text. They call me Muslim: a documentary / written produced by Diana Ferrero, 2006. Videorecording. Veil : veiling, representation and contemporary art / David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros, eds., 2003. Text. Voices of resistance: Muslim women on war, faith, & sexuality / edited by Sarah Husain, 2006. Text. Women embracing Islam: Gender and conversion in the West / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk, 2006. Text. The women of Hizbollah / Maher Abi-Samra, First Run/Icarus Films, 2000. Videorecording. Women in Islam / director, Mahmood Jamal, 1994. Videorecording. The women of Karbala: ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern shi'i Islam / edited By Kamran Scot Aghaie, 2005. Text. Women of Sufism : a hidden treasure : writings and stories of mystic poets, scholars & saints / selected & introduced by Camille Adams Helminski, 2003. Text. Women shaping Islam: Indonesian women reading the Qu'ran / Pieternella van Doorn-Harder, 2006. Text. A woman's place: house churches in earliest Christianity / Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald with Janet H. Tulloch, 2006. Text. JudaismBagels and grits: a Jew on the bayou / Jennifer Anne Moses, 2007. Text. Black-woman-Jew: Three wars for human liberation / A. Roy Eckardt, 1989. Text. The coming of Lilith: essays on feminism, Judaism and sexual ethics, 1972-2003 / Judith Plaskow ; edited with Donna Berman, 2005. Text. Gender issues in Jewish law : essays and responsa / Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer, eds., 2001. Text. Shiksa: the gentile woman in the Jewish world / Christine Benvenuto, 2004. Text. Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England: Jewish identity and Christian culture / Scheinberg, Cynthia, 2002. Text. Yentl's revenge : the next wave of Jewish feminism / Danya Ruttenberg, ed., 2001. Text. Religions of India (e.g., Sikh, Jain, Hindu)The Birth of the Khalsa: a feminist re-memory of Sikh identity / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, 2005. Text. Challenging the NGOs: women, religions and western dialogues in India / Tamsin Bradley, 2006. Text. Confronting Saffron demography: religion, fertility, and women's status in India / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery, 2006. Text. The feminine principle in the Sikh vision of the transcendent / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, 1993. Text. Graceful women : gender and identity in an American Sikh community / Constance Waeber Elsberg, 2003. Text. Guardians of the transcendent : an ethnography of a Jain ascetic community / Anne Vallely, 2002. Text. Sikhism and women / Raj Pruthi & Bela Rani Sharma, 1995. Text. Spiritual India: a guide to Jainism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism / Estela Films, 2000. Videorecording. Women in Indian Religions / Sharma, Arvind, ed., 2002. Text. Women in ochre robes: gendering Hindu renunciation / Khandelwal, Meena, 2004. Text. Subject Headings
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Created by A. Bates, Ph.D., Religion and Society, Fall 2003
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