Women and indigenous religions

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This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. --from publisher description.

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Full title :Women and indigenous religions / [edited by] Sylvia Marcos.

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Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Praeger
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 256 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780313082733, 0313082731
oclc:ocn659739763
LC Classification:BL458
Dewey Decimal:200.82/091724

Cover -- Women and Indigenous Religions -- Contents -- Introduction: Perspectives of Indigenous Religious Traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Australia -- PART I. WOMEN, FAMILY, AND ENVIRONMENT -- 1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories: Kungun and Yunnan -- 2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru -- PART II. SOCIOECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND AUTHORITY -- 3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas -- 4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlán, Mexico: Women Priestesses in Popular Religion -- PART III. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT -- 5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Incarnation in Korea and Vietnam -- 6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis in the Highlands of Northeast India -- 7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth Imagery -- PART IV. SEXUALITY, POWER, AND VULNERABILITY -- 8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood -- 9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their Identities in Contemporary Mexico -- PART V. WOMEN, WORLD VIEW, AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE -- 10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Wom…

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Autochtones -- Religion Femmes -- Vie religieuse Femmes et religion Frau Indigenes Volk Indigenous peoples -- Religion Naturreligion RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Pers… Religionsethnologie Religiosität Women -- Religious life Women and religion