Women, Religion, and the Gift

1. Contributing to Continuity: Women and Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Carol L. Meyers

2. Abidah El Khalieqy’s Struggles of Islamic Feminism Through Literary Writings
Diah Ariani Arimbi

3. An Epic Cry for Autonomy: Philosophical and Ethical Thinking in a Daoist Woman’s Ecstatic Excursions
Jinfen Yan

4. Economies of Sainthood: Disrupting the Discourse of Female Hagiography
Kathleen McPhillips

5. Indigenous Spirituality: Perspectives from the First Indigenous Women’s Summit of the Americas
Sylvia Marcos

6. Embodied Divinity and the Gift: The Case of Okinawan Kaminchu

Noriko Kawahashi

7. Women’s Power to Give: Their Central Role in Northern Plains First Nations
JoAllyn Archambault, Alice Beck Kehoe

8. A Buddhist Gift Enigma: Exchange in Vessantara’s Bodhisattvic Perfection of Giving
Suwanna Satha-Anand

9. Food Gifts (Female Gift Givers): A Taste of Jewishness
Norma Baumel Joseph

10. Conditional Gifts for the Saints: “Gift” and “Commodity” as Gender Metaphors in Shi’a Ritual Practices in Iran
Azam Torab

11. Black American Women and the Gift of Embodied Spirituality
Stephanie Y. Mitchem

12. Women and the Gift in Medieval South India
Leslie C. Orr

13. The Gifts of Wisdom: Images of the Feminine in Buddhism and Christianity
Morny Joy

Keywords: Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Sociology of Culture, Religious Studies, general