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More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history?In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how consideri

Women and religion --- History. --- United States --- Religion.

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Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to challenge the assumption that women have a special affinity with the Earth and therefore a historic mission for the care of the environment. The book explores spiritual, religious and philosophical beliefs concerning women and ecology, and whether women are truly "sacred custodians" of the Earth. This concept has evolved from ideas developed by eco-feminists. Whether and how different belief systems can be put to use to create an awareness to protect, preserve and improve ecological conditions is discussed. The collection of papers demonstrates the complexity of the issues and the variations and vulnerability of the assumed relationship between women and the environment in different cultural and political contexts. The book challenges policy solutions which are devised to be on a global scale and to create unrealistic global aspirations, and the value of targeting women in a particular attempt to achieve environmentally sustainable development.

Human ecology --- Ecofeminism --- Women and religion. --- Religious aspects.

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In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar's widow named Mabel Bartlrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and they believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford.When the last living members of the Panacea Society revealed to historian Jane Shaw their immense and painstakingly preserved archives, she began to reconstruct the story of a close-knit utopian community that grew to include seventy residents, thousands of followers, and an international healing ministry reaching 130,000 people. Shaw offers a detailed portrait of Octavia and describes the faith of her devoted followers who believed they would never die. Vividly told, by turns funny and tragic, Octavia, Daughter of God is about a moment at the advent of modernity, when a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity in their own image, offering a fascinating window into the anxieties and hopes of the interwar years.

Women and religion --- Christian sects --- History --- Barltrop, Mabel, --- Panacea Society.

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Women and religion. --- Women and religion --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Sexism in religion

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Les études en sciences sociales des religions ont encore beaucoup à découvrir sur l’engagement concret des femmes dans les sphères religieuses et plus encore sur les divers féminismes religieux. Il a fallu l’impulsion des mouvements des femmes des années 1970 puis le développement des études sur les femmes et le genre pour que l’on s’empare de ces sujets d’une façon plus analytique. Il s’agissait d’expliquer leur place ou leur rôle, non plus par leur « nature », mais par des rapports sociaux passés et présents. L’urgence du questionnement sur les religions depuis les années 1990 et plus encore au début du XXIe siècle, avec la focalisation sur le genre des groupes fondamentalistes et néo-conservateurs, ont donné un nouvel écho à ces recherches. Le rôle actif des femmes au sein des religions a été étudié et notamment celui des congrégations féminines, puis ont été mis au jour les féminismes religieux, et plus récemment les mouvements dits inclusifs LGBTQI. Ce recueil se situe au cœur d’un vaste champ d’études qu’il faut continuer à explorer.

Feminism --- Women and religion --- Religious aspects --- Feminism - Religious aspects - Congresses --- Women and religion - America - Congresses --- Religion --- Social Issues --- engagement --- religion --- féminisme --- femme