Feminism and Religion

Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself.This book will be an important resource for all ongoing work in feminist teaching and research in religion. -Rosemary Radford RuetherRita M. Gross is professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. She is the author of Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism and coeditor, with Nancy Auer Falk of Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives.