Mending a Torn World: Women in Interreligious Dialogue

Maura O'Neill explores what happens when women of different faiths and varying positions on an ideological spectrum enter into both inter- and intra-religious dialogue on issues of concern to us all.

Women in Mission: From the New Testament to Today

Susan E. Smith provides a comprehensive history of mission that highlights the critical contributions of women, as well as the theological developments that influenced their role. Beginning with an examination of the New Testament, she goes on to review the long period between the apostolic church and the Second Vatican Council.

Southeast Asian Women in Politics and Decision-Making, Ten Years After Beijin…

This book attempts to contribute to the Asian review process of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. Each of the country studies explains the socio-political, economic and cultural background of the situation of women and men and the drastic under representation of women in politics and public offices.

What Queen Esther Knew: Business Strategies From A Biblical Sage

Whether readers are famiiar with Queen Esther's story or not, her example as a strategist, persuasive speaker, and a risk-taker, will inspire and empower women to become the champions of their own carrers.

Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of feminism, she reinterprets the tragic stories of four women in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine, and the daughter of Jephthah. In highlighting the silence, absence, and opposition of God, as well as human cruelty, Trible …

New Space For Women

This book addresses American women's problems in homes and office buildings, in urban and suburban areas, and in neighborhoods and assesses the institutional barriers to change that have prevented women's needs from being adequately addressed in the decisionmaking process.

Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives

In the biblical narratives, women are usually minor characters in the stories of men. Fragments of women's stories must be gleaned from the more cohesive stories of their fathers, husbands and sons. Fragmented Women begins with the premise that, to recover shards of women's stories from androcentric texts like the Bible, it is necessary to step outside the ideology of the text, subverting the p…

Women and Inculturated Evangelization In Africa

Edisi

First Published

ISBN/ISSN

9966-836-52-7

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv + 352 pgs.; 21 cm.

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

305.46 WIR w

Foremothers: Women of the Bible

Edisi

First Published

ISBN/ISSN

0-8164-2329-6

Deskripsi Fisik

xv + 167 pgs.; 21 cm.

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

220.92082 NUN f

Models of Achievement: Reflectons of Eminent Women in Psychology

This outstanding book contains inspiring stories of late 20th century women who broke new ground in psychological knowledge and its applications. The lives and careers of 53 women are examined within social and historical contexts using three levels of analysis--the individual, the group, and the universal. The thoughtful autobiographies and the perceptive, integrative analyses increase unde…