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Women, Religion, and the Gift

An Abundance of Riches

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Morny Joy

    1. Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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  • Is the first to re-examine women’s relations to the notion of the gift in ways that challenge conventional readings
  • Is written by leading scholars from different religious affiliations and locations
  • Offers unique, cross-cultural perspectives
  • Describes rituals, actions, orientations where women’s important, if not indispensable roles have not been recognized
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Contributing to Continuity: Women and Sacrifice in Ancient Israel

    • Carol L. Meyers
    Pages 1-19

  3. Abidah El Khalieqy’s Struggles of Islamic Feminism Through Literary Writings

    • Diah Ariani Arimbi
    Pages 21-34

  4. An Epic Cry for Autonomy: Philosophical and Ethical Thinking in a Daoist Woman’s Ecstatic Excursions

    • Jinfen Yan
    Pages 35-55

  5. Economies of Sainthood: Disrupting the Discourse of Female Hagiography

    • Kathleen McPhillips
    Pages 57-68

  6. Indigenous Spirituality: Perspectives from the First Indigenous Women’s Summit of the Americas

    • Sylvia Marcos
    Pages 69-86

  7. Embodied Divinity and the Gift: The Case of Okinawan Kaminchu

    • Noriko Kawahashi
    Pages 87-102

  8. Women’s Power to Give: Their Central Role in Northern Plains First Nations

    • JoAllyn Archambault, Alice Beck Kehoe
    Pages 103-114

  9. A Buddhist Gift Enigma: Exchange in Vessantara’s Bodhisattvic Perfection of Giving

    • Suwanna Satha-Anand
    Pages 115-128

  10. Food Gifts (Female Gift Givers): A Taste of Jewishness

    • Norma Baumel Joseph
    Pages 129-138

  11. Conditional Gifts for the Saints: “Gift” and “Commodity” as Gender Metaphors in Shi’a Ritual Practices in Iran

    • Azam Torab
    Pages 139-157

  12. Black American Women and the Gift of Embodied Spirituality

    • Stephanie Y. Mitchem
    Pages 159-172

  13. Women and the Gift in Medieval South India

    • Leslie C. Orr
    Pages 173-193

  14. The Gifts of Wisdom: Images of the Feminine in Buddhism and Christianity

    • Morny Joy
    Pages 195-218

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 219-228
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About this book

This book introduces the special dynamics of women and their close relationships with the gift in both past and contemporary religious settings. Written from a cross-cultural perspective, it challenges depictions of women’s roles in religion where they have been relegated to compliance with specifically designated gendered attributes. The different chapters contest the resultant stereotypes that deny women agency. Each chapter describes women as engaged in an aspect of religion, from that of ritual specialists, to benefactors and patrons, or even innovators. The volume examines topics such as sainthood and sacrifice so as to refine these ideas in constructive ways that do not devalue women. It also examines the meaning of the term “gift” today, embracing the term in both figurative and literal ways. Such a collection of diverse women’s writings and activities provides a significant contribution to their quest for recognition, and also suggests ways this can be understood and realized today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Morny Joy

About the editor

Morny Joy is University Professor in the Dept. of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary, Canada. She researches and has published in the areas of philosophy and religion, postcolonialism, and intercultural studies in South and South-East Asia, as well as in diverse aspects of women and religion. Morny has served from 2005 on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Religion. In 2011 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki. Recent publications include: Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion (Springer 2011) and After Appropriation: Explorations in Intercultural Philosophy and Religion (University of Calgary 2011).

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