Acknowledgments

Permissions Credits

Introduction

``Women, Gender, Religion: Troubling Categories and Transforming Knowledge''

Elizabeth A. Castelli

Part I: Categories of Analysis and Critique: ``Gender,'' ``Religion,'' ``Feminism''

``What's in a Name? Exploring the Dimensions of What `Feminist Studies in Religion' Means'' (1995)

Miriam Peskowitz

``Weaving the Fabric of Our Lives'' (1997)

Carol P. Christ

``Unweaving: A Response to Carol P. Christ'' (1997)

Miriam Peskowitz

``Reweaving'' (2001)

Carol P. Christ

```Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word'' (1991)

Donna J. Haraway

``The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yoruba Language, Orature, and World-Sense'' (1997)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

``Snakes Alive: Resituating the Moral in the Study of Religion'' (1998)

Robert A. Orsi

``Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism'' (1999)

Minoo Moallem

Part II: Origins, Identities, and Appropriations

``Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character'' (1987)

Mieke Bal

``Sacrifice as Remedy for Having Been Born of Woman'' (1985)

Nancy Jay

```Shahbano''' (1989)

Zakia Pathak

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

``A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern'' (1994)

Helene P. Foley

``On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism'' (1999)

Laura E. Donaldson

Part III: Gender and Religious Experience: Interdisciplinary Approaches

``Margery Kempe Answers Back'' (1999)

Carolyn Dinshaw

``Sexology and the Occult: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Theosophy's New Age'' (1997)

Joy Dixon

``Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson'' (1999)

Katherine Clay Bassard

``The Woman Who Wanted to Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk-Possession in a Hasidic Community'' (1985)

Yoram Bilu

``The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia'' (1988)

Aihwa Ong

Part IV: Gender, Religion, and Body Politics

``From a `Pot of Filth' to a `Hedge of Roses' (and Back): Changing Theorizations of Menstruation in Judaism'' (1997)

Jonah Steinberg

``Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity'' (1995)

Mary Rose D'Angelo

``The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women'' (1997)

Homa Hoodfar

``Women Who Walk on Water: Working across `Race' in Women Against Fundamentalism'' (1997)

Clara Connolly

Pragna Patel

``Agency, Activism, and Agendas'' (1998)

Patricia Jeffery

``Tender Warriors'' (1997)

Linda Kintz

``Getting Religion'' (1999)

Janet R. Jakobsen

Ann Pellegrini

Part V: Gender and Religion in the Politics of the Academy

``The Academy as Real Life: New Participants and Paradigms in the Study of Religion'' (1999)

Judith Plaskow

Contributors