This series is the first to examine the relationship between religion and human gendredness, a fast-expanding area of interest. It looks at how gender 'differences' are embedded in religious institutions and practices around the world and how they shape approaches to religious authority and sacred power everywhere.
By Melissa Raphael
May 09, 2003
The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the ...
By Jone Salomonsen
December 21, 2001
This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual practices of Reclaiming, asking how these promote ...