Promotional Information

This collection of spiritual testimonies is committed to the idea that genuine dialogue between men and women that acknowledges the essential fully gendered human aspect of each is the foundation for achieving true liberation of the sexes.

Table of Contents

Introduction
"Each Night" by Myra Shapiro
The Quest for Dialogue between Men and Women: Introductory Remarks by Leonard Grob
"Jihad Fi Sabil Allah": A Muslim Woman's Faith Journey from Struggle to Struggle to Struggle by Riffat Hassan
Witnesses for a Spiritual Feminism
Woman Jews by Tikvah Frymer-Kensky
A Christian Feminist's Struggle with the Bible as Authority by Constance F. Parvey
The Issue of Woman-Man Equality in the Islamic Tradition by Riffat Hassan
Women and the Hindu Tradition by Kana Mitra
"The Dharma…Is Neither Male Nor Female": Buddhism on Gender and Liberation by Rita M. Gross
A Spiritual Challenge for Men
Male-Female Relations and the Dialogical Imperative by Leonard Grob
Yeshua, Feminist and Androgynous: An Integrated Human by Leonard Swidler
Educating for Dialogue between Men and Women
Sartre, Transcendence, and Education for Equality between the Sexes by Betty Cannon
Men's and Women's Sharing of Freedom: The Educational Task by Haim Gordon
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

LEONARD GROB is Professor of Philosophy and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His previous publications include Education for Peace: Testimonies from World Religions, as well as articles in Judaism, the Journal of Jewish Studies, Educational Theory, and Leadership: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.

RIFFAT HASSAN is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Louisville. She is the author of numerous articles and two books on the Muslim thinker Allam Muhammued Iqbal. Dr. Hassan is currently completing a book, Equal Before Allah?, a study of issues relating to woman-man equality discussed in light of the Quran and the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions.

HAIM GORDON is Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt: Existential Themes in His Writings and Make Room for Dreams: Spiritual Challenges to Zionism (Greenwood Press, 1990 and 1989, respectively), and other books, scholarly papers, and book reviews.