Women and New and Africana Religions

Informationen zum Autor Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, Oyeronke Olademo Klappentext This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice.This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum.In Women and New and Africana Religions , readers hear from women from a number of religious/spiritual persuasions around the world, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North America. These voices form the core of remarkable explorations of family and environment, social and spiritual empowerment, sexuality and power, and ways in which worldview informs roles in religion and society. Each essay includes scene-setting historical and social background information and fascinating insights from renowned scholars sharing their own research and firsthand experiences with their subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian (EDT)/ Martin Ashcraft-eason, Ashcraft-Eason Lillian, Darnise Martin, Darnise C. Martin, Oyeronke Olademo, Olademo Oyeronke
• Assisted by: Lillian Ashcraft-Eason (Editor), Darnise C. Martin (Editor), Oyeronke Olademo (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2009
• EAN: 9780275991562
• ISBN: 978-0-275-99156-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE WORL; Women and Religion in the World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Religion: general, Religion and beliefs, Comparative; Religion