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Verzameling essays gebaseerd op de papers van en discussies gehouden op de 16e internationale conferentie van de International Association for the History of Religions (1990). Na de inleiding zijn de volgende bijdragen opgenomen: The epistemological significance of feminist research in religion / door June O'Connor; Feminist anthropology and the gendering of religious studies / door Rosalind Shaw; Religion and the hermeneutics of gender: an examination of the work of Paul Ricoeur / door Erin White; Desputing the sacred: some theoretical approaches to gender and religion / door Penelope Margaret Magee; God and gender: some reflections on women's invocations of the divine / Morny Joy; The return of the goddess: psychoanalytic reflections on the shift from theology to thealogy / door Naomi Goldenberg; Religion and magic in the modern cults of the great goddess / door Donate Pahnke; Spirituality, consciousness and gender identification: a neo-feminist perspective / door Felicity Edwards; Women researching, women researched: gender as an issue in the empirical study of religion / door Kim Knott; A question of identiy: women scholars and the study of religion / door Ursula King; Women's studies of the Christian tradition / Kari Elisabeth Borresen; Women and new religious movements in Africa / door Rosalind I.J. Hackett; Liberator or pacifier: religion and women in Japan / Marilyn F. Nefsky.