Sociology, education, and other scholars from the US, Europe, and Israel present 13 chapters that examine gender and diversity issues in religious-based organizations and institutions. They discuss black women's spiritual health identity; the Young Women's Christian Association in Kenya from 1955 to 1965; religious teens' body image and well-being in Israel; psychological essentialism, diversity, and religious experience on college campuses; the efforts to start a gay-straight alliance at a rural, private, Catholic college; Marygrove College's Griot Program to address the underrepresentation of African American males in teaching; and more.
– ProtoView Reviews
In many ways, the contributors to this volume testify to the fact that ours is anything but a postracial or gender sensitive world, even in religious circles. Racial and gender objectification is a daily experience for many people around the globe. A resilient hope runs through the book that well-meaning religious educators and leaders inspired by their mission statements will strive to reclaim their confessed commitments and goals to do the right thing by exercising genuine gender diversity, justice, and equality. This book is long overdue and should be read, studied, and its content applied in every institution, school, and social organization worthy of its socio-religious commitment to the betterment of human interrelationships for a foreseeable and lasting future.
– Aliou Niang, Union Theological Seminary, New York USA. Reviewed in Reflective Teaching