Women and indigenous religions
This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. --from publisher description
Nonfiction
x, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
9780275991579, 9780313082733, 0275991571, 0313082731
531718810
Cover
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