Jule, Allyson
Gender and the Language of Religion
1. Introduction: The Meeting of Gender, Language and Religion
Allyson Jule
Part I. Gender, Language Patterns and Religious Thought
2. An Overview of God and Gender in Religion
Münevver Tekcan
3. The Gender of God: Judeo-Christian Feminist Debates
Francis Britto
4. Asymmetries of Male/Female Representation in Arabic
Samira Farwaneh
5. American Women: Their Cursing Habits and Religiosity
Timothy Jay
Part II. Gender and Language Use in Religious Communities
6. Women and Men: Languages and Religion in Taiwan
Chao-Chih Liao
7. Women’s Letters to the Editor: Talking Religion in a Saudi Arabian English Newspaper
Hannes Kniffka
8. A Cyber-Parish: Gendered Identity Construction in an On-Line Episcopal Community
Sage Graham
9. Language Use and Silence as Morality: Teaching and Lecturing at an Evangelical Theology College
Allyson Jule
10. The Children of God Who Wouldn’t, but Had To
Annabelle Mooney
Part III. Gender and Language Use in Religious Identity
11. ‘Restoring the Broken Image’: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-Gay Ministry
Amy Peebles
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Fazila Bhimji
13. ‘Inshallah, today there will be work’: Senegalese Women Entrepreneurs Constructing Identities through Language Use and Islamic Practice
Shartriya Collier
14. Gender, Hebrew Language Acquisition and Religious Values in Jewish High Schools in North America
Debra Cohen, Nancy Berkowitz
15. Speaking Our Gendered Selves: Hinduism and the Indian Woman
Kalyani Shabadi
Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Religion, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics, general, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, general
- Editor
- Jule, Allyson
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 292 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230523494
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-52511-9