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Recommended Reading in Gender and Ethnicity in American Religions

Recommendations for Further Reading

Gender and Ethnicity in American Religious Life:


Brenda Brasher, Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power (Rutgers, 1998)

Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola (University of California Press, 2001)

Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (Perseus Books, 1995)

Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Jewish Women Turn to Orthodoxy (University of California Press, 1993)

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, If It Wasn’t For the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community (Orbis Books, 2000)

R. Marie Griffith, God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission

Debra Renee Kaufman, Rachel’s Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women (Rutgers 1991)

Elaine Lawless, God’s Peculiar People: Women’s Voices and Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church (University of Kentucky Press, 2005)

Stephanie Waller Levine, Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls (New York University Press, 2004)

Christel Manning, God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple With Feminism (University of California Press, 1999)

Robert Orsi, The Madonna Of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem (Yale University Press, 1988)

Susan Jean Palmer: Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women in New Religious Movements (Syracuse University Press, 1996), and Children in New Religions (Rutgers, 1999)

John Rechy, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez (Grove Press, 2001)

Elaine Umansky, Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Sprirituality (Beacon, 1992)

Gloria Wade Gayles, My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality (Beacon Press, 1996)

Melissa Wilcox, Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (Indiana University Press, 2003