Religion and Gender Book

	List of Tables
	Contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Gender and the Study of Religion	1
1	The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion	45
2	Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies	65
3	Religion and the Hermeneutics of Gender: An Examination of the Work of Paul Ricoeur	77
4	Disputing the Sacred: Some Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Religion	101
5	God and Gender: Some Reflections on Women's Invocations of the Divine	121
6	The Return of the Goddess: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Shift from Theology to Thealogy	145
7	Religion and Magic in the Modern Cults of the Great Goddess	165
8	Spirituality, Consciousness and Gender Identification: A Neo-Feminist Perspective	177
9	Women Researching, Women Researched: Gender as an Issue in the Empirical Study of Religion	199
10	A Question of Identity: Women Scholars and the Study of Religion	219
11	Women's Studies of the Christian Tradition: New Perspectives	245
12	Women and New Religious Movements in Africa	257
13	Liberator or Pacifier: Religion and Women in Japan	291
	Index	311