Women, religion, and the gift

• Titel: Women, religion, and the gift
• Titelzusatz: an abundance of riches
• Mitwirkende: Joy, Morny [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: Morny Joy, editor
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Verlag: Springer
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 228 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures ; volume 17
• Fussnoten: Description based upon print version of record
• ISBN: 978-3-319-43189-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Religion / (s)Frau / (s)Das Übernatürliche / (s)Außersinnliche Wahrnehmung
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Women, religion, and the gift. - [Cham : Springer, 2017. - xxxiii, 228 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: BE 2242
• K10plus-PPN: 871775700
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Contributing to Continuity: Women and Sacrifice in Ancient Israel -- Introduction: Sacrifices, Places of Sacrifice, Personnel -- Ancient Near Eastern Context: Women and Sacrifice -- Sacrifice at Communal Israelite Shrines: Women's Participation -- Israelite Household Religion: Women's Sacrificial Practices -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Abidah El Khalieqy's Struggles of Islamic Feminism Through Literary Writings -- Introduction -- About Abidah El Khalieqy -- Muslim Women and Their Rights

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Education Rights -- Abidah and Reproductive Rights -- Abidah on Gender-Based Violence: Domestic Violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: An Epic Cry for Autonomy: Philosophical and Ethical Thinking in a Daoist Woman's Ecstatic Excursions -- Introduction: Lady Wang and Her Poem, The Plaint -- The Ecstatic Excursion and Subjective Transcendence -- Philosophical Teachings and Reflection as Presented in The Plaint -- Ethical and Metaphysical Thinking in The Plaint -- Human Nature Is Good and Beautiful (li) -- Morality as the Path to Enlightenment -- A Cry for Autonomy

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The Ethics of Human Relations -- Reflections on Lady Wang in the Context of the Gift -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Economies of Sainthood: Disrupting the Discourse of Female Hagiography -- Sainthood and Its Narratives -- Constructing a Saint -- Approaches to Reading Mary's Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Indigenous Spirituality: Perspectives from the First Indigenous Women's Summit of the Americas -- Introduction -- The Contemporary Context -- The Bishops' Message to the Summit and the Women's Response -- Indigenous Spirituality

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Duality and Gender -- Equilibrium and Gender Equity -- A Spirituality of Immanence -- Embodied Thought -- A New Cosmovision -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Embodied Divinity and the Gift: The Case of Okinawan Kaminchu -- Introduction -- Setting the Issues in a Scholarly and Cultural Context -- An Alternative to Universalist Theses -- Female Predominance in Ritual -- Body and Soul in Okinawa: The Accession Rite -- The Ungami Ritual -- Invocation to the Hearth Deity -- Unaiugami: Worship of Women -- Festivity -- Sending Off the Deity -- Summary and Interpretation

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Gender and Ontology in Okinawa: A Problematic Interpretation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Women's Power to Give: Their Central Role in Northern Plains First Nations -- Introduction -- The Acknowledgment of Women and Their Gifts -- Blackfoot Ceremonies -- Lakota Ceremony -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: A Buddhist Gift Enigma: Exchange in Vessantara's Bodhisattvic Perfection of Giving -- Giving in the Vessantara Jataka Tale -- Giving as an Act of Confirming Status and of Extreme Giving by a Bodhisattva -- Bodhisattva Giving and Economy of Exchange

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A Bodhisattva Giving "in Exchange for" Enlightenment