Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives / Edition 3

by Nancy Auer Falk, Rita M. Gross

Overview

With thoroughly integrated readings and original introductions, UNSPOKEN WORLDS provides an illustration of cross-cultural patterns in women's religious lives. Carefully selected works writings by eminent scholars have been judiciously edited by Falk and Gross to weave them into a coherent whole that evolves from simple, vivid portraits of individual women to analyses of complete systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780534515706
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	08/09/2000
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Nancy Falk earned a B.A. from Cedar Crest College and a MA/Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is a leading scholar in the fields of Indian Religion-both Hinduism and Buddhism-and in cross-cultural women's studies in religion. Among her many scholarly contributions to religious studies, several standouts include: UNSPOKEN WORLDS: WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS LIVES (with Rita M. Gross and also published by Wadsworth), and WOMEN AND RELIGION IN INDIA.

Table of Contents

- Encounter: Extraordinary Women - Women called by Spirits: Shamans and Savants - In the Wings: Rituals for Wives and Mothers - Out of the Shadows: Women in Male-Dominated Systems - Success Stories: Women and Men in Balance or Equality