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001 2010006508
003 DLC
005 20150822090658.0
008 100218s2010 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010006508
020 $a9780275991579 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a0275991571
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn531718810
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050 00 $aBL458$b.W5634 2010
082 00 $a200.82/091724$222
245 00 $aWomen and indigenous religions /$cSylvia Marcos, editor.
260 $aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$bPraeger,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 256 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aWomen and religion in the world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCover -- 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 Women's Quest for a Gendered Spirituality -- 11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and Indigenous Healing -- Suggested Reading -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index
650 0 $aWomen and religion.
650 0 $aWomen$xReligious life.
650 0 $aIndigenous peoples$xReligion.
700 1 $aMarcos, Sylvia.
830 0 $aWomen and religion in the world.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1511/2010006508-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1511/2010006508-d.html