劉一蓉. / "2001年8月" / 書名中的[ma], 字形為: '女'在左, '麻'在右. / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 參考文獻 (leaves 150-159) / 附中英文摘要. / "2001 nian 8 yue" / Shu ming zhong de [ma], zi xing wei: 'nü' zai zuo, 'ma' zai you. / Liu Yirong. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 150-159) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章、 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 一、 --- 硏究對象 --- p.1 / Chapter 二、 --- 中國社會中女性地位與角色的相關學術研究 --- p.3 / Chapter 三、 --- 硏究動機與問題 --- p.12 / Chapter 四、 --- 硏究方法 --- p.14 / Chapter 五、 --- 硏究的重要性 --- p.18 / Chapter 六、 --- 論文結構 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二章、 --- 丙雁地區的地理、社會、經濟與宗教背景 --- p.24 / Chapter 一、 --- 地理、社會與經濟環境 --- p.24 / Chapter 二、 --- 梅縣地區的宗教背景 --- p.29 / Chapter 第三章、 --- 中國歷史上的女性宗教人員 --- p.34 / Chapter 一、 --- 巫（丙雁地區稱仙姑¯±ø） --- p.34 / Chapter 二、 --- 道姑 --- p.39 / Chapter 三、 --- 比丘尼(丙雁地區稱爲尼姑） --- p.41 / Chapter 四、 --- 齋婆（又可稱女教主） --- p.44 / Chapter 第四章、 --- 齋¯±ø的宗教生活 --- p.47 / Chapter 一、 --- 成爲齋¯±ø的原因一貧窮的家境與卑下的地位 --- p.48 / Chapter 二、 --- 齋¯±ø的生活一弱勢與優勢、神聖與世俗 --- p.50 / Chapter 三、 --- 齋¯±ø的人際網絡 --- p.62 / Chapter 第五章、 --- 齋¯±ø的廟宇與神明 --- p.72 / Chapter 一、 --- 齋¯±ø嶋 --- p.73 / Chapter 二、 --- 齋¯±ø的神明 --- p.80 / Chapter 第六章、 --- 齋¯±ø的宗教活動與經典 --- p.93 / Chapter 一、 --- 齋¯±ø日常的宗教修習活動 --- p.98 / Chapter 二、 --- 公開性宗教活動 --- p.100 / Chapter 第七章、 --- 齋¯±ø的社會技能 --- p.123 / Chapter 一、 --- 「必須」與「非必須」舉行的宗教活動 --- p.125 / Chapter 二、 --- 宗教活動舉行的因素 --- p.126 / Chapter 三、 --- 齋¯±ø的社會技能 --- p.129 / Chapter 第八章、 --- 結論 --- p.134 / 附錄 --- p.139 / 參考書目 --- p.150

The temple of the Goddess Kamakhya in Assam is the pre-eminent site of Hindu Goddess worship. It is revered as the yoni pītha, the place where the generative organ of the Goddess is worshipped. This thesis, centred on Kamakhya, explores the Hindu tradition of Goddess worship, Saktism, and both the possibilities and contradictions it presents for women. The research was undertaken from a feminist standpoint and employed a framework that was collaborative, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary. Six women co-researchers from India, the U.S. and Australia took part in a pilgrimage that simultaneously explored the Kamakhya site, its history, symbols, myths and customs, alongside our own personal understandings of Saktism and its role in women’s spiritual empowerment. Our aim, in the face of contradictory evidence about the impact of Goddess traditions on the status of Hindu women, was to try to bridge cultural differences of interpretation and develop feminist readings of what may be enabling for women. The thesis establishes the basis of our collective fascination with Sakti, which denotes both the Goddess and the cosmic power she personifies. Through a combination of narrative, exposition of Indian sources and critical cultural analysis, I present our deliberations on the rich tapestry of themes we encountered. From the outset the thesis problematises the cross-cultural encounter and continues this frame throughout. The voices of the principal co-researchers emerge as they co-constitute the research, its methods and its implementation. Their central role is confirmed as the inquiry proceeds. Following the path of my preliminary encounters with the Goddess and with the co-researchers, pilgrimage is established as a traditional means of encountering the Goddess and, in the form we constructed, as a key experiential dimension of the research. In the encounter with Kamakhya, her dual persona as Mother Goddess and Goddess of Love is elaborated. The meanings and origins of both these aspects, their integration through the concept of srsti cosmic creation, and the implications for women of their associated practices of worship are explored at length. Finally, in light of the pilgrimage, I re-consider conjunctions between Saktism, feminist perspectives on women’s empowerment and theological horizons. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, The Divinity School, August, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Multi-religious and multi-ethnic democracies face the challenge of constructing accommodative arrangements that can both facilitate cultural diversity and ensure women's rights within religio-cultural groups. This thesis is an investigation of the Indian state's policy of legal pluralism in recognition of religious family laws in India. The Indian state has adopted a model of what I have termed "shared adjudication" in which the state shares its adjudicative authority with internally heterogeneous religious groups and civil society in the regulation of marriage among Hindus and Muslims. / Combining theoretical frameworks of state-society relations, feminist theory, and legal pluralism, and drawing from ethnographic research conducted in state courts, caste and sect councils, and "doorstep law courts," I pay analytical attention to state-society interactions at the interface of religious family laws. State and non-state sources of legal authority construct internally contested and heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations, and religious membership, and they transmit them across legal spheres. These dynamic processes of communication reconstitute the interiors of religious, state, and civic legal orders, and they fracture the homogenised religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. / Within the interstices of state and society---which are used imaginatively by state and societal actors---the Indian model points towards an open-ended and process-oriented conception of state-society relations that encompasses not only the binary of conflict and cooperation, but also communication between state and society. The "shared adjudication" model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries, and provides institutional spaces for ongoing inter-societal dialogue between religious groups, civil society, and the state. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase women's rights in law, and despite its limitations, the transformative potential of women's collective agency effects institutional change.

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Thesis (S.J.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Thesis (PhD) -- University of Western Sydney, 2001. / Bibliography : leaves 247-254.

Project (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1988. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-120).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. John Corrigan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Religion. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains v, 46 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Centre for Cultural Research, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographies.