Gender and Religious Leadership by Bomhoff, Hartmut; Eger, Denise L.; Ehrensperger, Kathy; Homolka, Walter;

Long description:

This volume analyzes historical and recent developments in female religious leadership and the larger issues shaping the scholarly debate at the intersection of gender and religious studies. Jewish activism and scholarship have been crucial in linking theology and gender issues since the early twentieth century. Academic and vocational leadership and training have had significant, concrete impact on religious communal practices and formation across the US and Europe. At the same time, these models provide important avenues of constructive dialogue and comparative ecumenical and interfaith enterprises. This volume investigates those possibilities towards constructive, activist, holistic female ministerial leadership for religious faith communities.

Table of Contents:

"

Preface - Honoring the Legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: A Call to Let Religious Women Write Alternative Narratives of the Future, Denise L. Eger
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Women as Religious Leaders, Hartmut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter Homolka

I. New Roles for Jewish Women in Modernizing Germany and America

1.The Discourse of the Other: The Transformation of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Yael Kupferberg
2.Patterns of Reform: Tracking Women's Changing Roles in Synagogues and Communal Life within Nineteenth-Century American and German Judaism, Karla Goldman
3.Women Students at the Berlin Hochschule fï¿1⁄2r die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Esther Seidel
4.""The Woman in the House of God"" (1926) Revisited, Hartmut Bomhoff
5.Paving the Road to Women Rabbis, 1889-2015, Pamela Nadell

II. Three Pioneers of Female Leadership: Henrietta Szold, Margarete Susman, and Regina Jonas

6.Henrietta Szold: A ""Pretty Certain Miriam"", Gail Twersky Reimer
7.The Religiou