Gender and the Language of Religion [Hardcover]

This book contributes to an understanding of the complex relationship of gender and language alongside religion and religious life as experienced by various religious groups around the world. The intention is to put forward current studies in the field of linguistics and explore how gender and various religions intersect with language use. The universal and diverse experience of religion provides for this unique collection of papers concerning the use of language in religious liturgy, in religious communities, and in interaction with identity. As such, the book will attract students and researchers in discourse, gender studies and religious studies.Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword; M.Meyerhoff Introduction: The Meeting of Gender, Language, and Religion; A.Jul? PART I: GENDER, LANGUAGE PATTERNS, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT An Overview of God and Gender in Religion; M.Tekcan The Gender of God: Judeo-Christian Feminist Debates; F.Britto Asymmetries of Male/Female Representation within Arabic; S.Farwaneh American Women, Their Cursing Habits, and Religiosity; T.Jay PART II: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Women and Men, Langauges and Relgion in Taiwan; C-c.Liao Women's Letters to the Editor: Talking Religion in a Saudi Arabian English Newspaper; H.Kniffka A Cyber-Parish: Gendered Identity Construction in an Online Episcopal Community; S.Graham Language Use and Silence as Morality: Teaching and Lecturing at an Evangelical Theology College; A.Jul? The Children of God Who Wouldn't, But Had To; A.Mooney PART III: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Restoring the Broken Image?: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-gay Ministry; A.Peebles Assalamu Alaikum. Brother, I have a Right to My Opinion on This : British Islamic Women Assert Their Positions in Virtual Space; F.Bhimji Inshallah, today there will be work : Senegalese Women Entrepreneurs in America Constructing Identities through Language Use and Islamic Practice; S.Collier Gel“¦