Vol. 29 No. 2 (2016): Women and Religious Authority

Special Issue: This issue was edited by Kathleen McPhillips

Published: 2016-11-18

Editorial

Women and Religious Authority: Contesting Gender and Power in Faith Traditions

Kathleen McPhillips

131-133
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Articles

Contested Feminisms: Women’s Religious Leadership and the Politics of Contemporary Western Feminism

Kathleen McPhillips

134-149
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‘This is the age of women’: Legitimizing Female Authority in Contemporary Turkish Sufism

Anna Neubauer

150-166
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Progressive Islam and Women’s Religious Leadership: Analysing the Emergence of New Models of Shared Authority

Lisa Worthington

167-181
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Creating Communities of Justice and Peace: Sacramentality and Public Catholicism in the United States

Rosemary P. Carbine

182-202
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Book Reviews

Svetlana Peshkova, Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, pp. viii + 352, ISBN: 978-0- 8156-3373-0 (Hbk)

Lisa Worthington

203-204
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life. New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2011, pp. x + 200, ISBN: 978-1559393744 (Pbk).

Diane Cousins

205-206
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Francesca Aran Murphy, Balázs M. Mezei, and Kenneth Oakes, Illuminating Faith: An Invitation to Theology. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 176, ISBN: 9780567656063 (Pbk).

Jamie Thrams

207-208
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Lawrence A. Babb, Understanding Jainism. Edinburgh and London: Dunedin Academic Press, 2015, pp. xv + 182, ISBN: 978-1-78046-535-7 (Pbk).

Carole Cusack

209-210
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Peter Sloterdijk, Stress and Freedom, trans. Wieland Hoban. Cambridge: Polity, 2015, pp. 50, ISBN: 9780745699295 (Pbk).

Chris Hartney

211-212
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Sherry Fohr, Jainism: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, pp. xii+158, ISBN: 978-1-4411-5116-2 (Pbk).

Melanie Barbato

213-214
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