Gender and religious leadership: women rabbis, pastors, and ministers

Preface: Honoring the legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: a call to let religious women write alternative narratives of the future / Denise L. Eger -- Introduction: women as religious leaders / Hartmut Bomhoff [and 3 others]. -- Part 1: New roles for Jewish women in modernizing Germany and America. The...

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Contributors: Eger, Denise L. (Editor) ; Bomhoff, Hartmut 1965- (Editor) ; Ehrensperger, Kathy 1956- (Editor) ; Homolka, Walter (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Woman / Rabbi
B Religion / Women executives / Ordination
B Pastor / Rabbi / Priestess / Comparison of religions
Further subjects:B Comparative Studies
B Collection of essays
B Women in Judaism
B Women and religion Comparative studies
B Women and religion
B Women religious leaders
B Women clergy
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: Bomhoff, Hartmut: Gender and Religious Leadership : Women Rabbis, Pastors, and Ministers. - Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2019. - 9781793601575
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Summary:Preface: Honoring the legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: a call to let religious women write alternative narratives of the future / Denise L. Eger -- Introduction: women as religious leaders / Hartmut Bomhoff [and 3 others]. -- Part 1: New roles for Jewish women in modernizing Germany and America. The discourse of the other: the transformation of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century Germany / Yael Kupferberg -- Patterns of reform: tracking women's changing roles in synagogues and communal life within nineteenth-century American and German Judaism / Karla Goldman -- Women students at the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums / Esther Seidel -- "The Woman in the House of God" (1926) revisited / Hartmut Bomhoff -- Paving the road to women rabbis, 1889-2015 / Pamela S. Nadell. Part 2: Three pioneers of female leadership. Henrietta Szold: A "pretty certain Miriam" / Gail Twersky Reimer -- The religious as the political in Margarete Susman / Elisa Klapheck -- Remembering Regina Jonas: on the intersectionality of women's, Jewish, German, and Holocaust history / Katharina von Kellenbach -- Memory and identity: female leadership and the legacy of Rabbi Regina Jonas / Stefanie Sinclair. Part 3: Personal reflections. The married what they wanted to be?: Rebbetzins and their unconventional paths to power / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Looking back: religion as container for memory and tradition / Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. Part 4: Comparing notes. Women's leadership in the Roman Catholic Church: a survey of half a century's development with particular reference to Germany / Marie-Theres Wacker -- The impact of women in Protestant Christian ministry today / Renate Jost -- Rereading male chauvinism: Muslim women's own approach to their holy text / Katajun Amirpur -- The ordination of women and the question of religious authority / Judith Frishman.
Women have shaped Judaism and other religions through their leadership in many different ways. This volume analyzes the historical context, current developments, and personal experiences of women in religious leadership that have redefined not just the role of religion, but also the way women understand themselves
ISBN:1793601585