BL458.W65

Proceedings of the Hartford Symposium on Women, Religion, and Social Change Includes bibliographies and index

1. Women and the Formation of Religious Tradition The Separation of women in rabbinic Judaism - Women, Religion and social change in early Islam - Gargi at the king's Court: women and Pjilosophic Innovation in ancient india - Nuns and Benefactresses: the role of women in the development of buddhism - Striking a Balanc: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism 2. Social Transfirmation, the Role of Women and traditional Religious Institutions - The Magdalen: Reflections on the image of the Saint and sinner in christian Art - Women and Islamic art - Hindu Paradigms of Women: Images and Values - Scared Paradoxes: Women and Religious Plaurality in Nigeria 3. Women, Religion and Revolution in the modern world - Islam, Women and revolution in twentieth- century arab thought - Woman's Place and the Place of women in the Iranian Revolution - Religious aspects of Women's Role in the Nicaraguan Revolution - Goddesses, Mothers, and Heroines: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the early Nationalist movement - The Soong sisters and china's revolutions, 1911-1936 4. Women, Religion and the transformation of Society in north Amercia - Igroquois religion and women in historical perspective annemarie A. shimony - Spirits defend the right of women: spiritualism and chabging sex rules in nineteenth- century america - From shackles to liberation: religion, in the grimke sisters and Dissent - The American Catholic Bishops and women: from the ninteenth Amendment to ERA - Feminism and the reevaluation of women's roles within American Jewish life