DESCRIPTION

Women of three religious traditions share stories that affirm the power that faith and belonging have to illuminate life. In these stories women show how faith structures their lives and how 'belonging' to a tradition remains meaningful. The authors include Nura W. Ammat'ullah, a Muslim developer of faith-based community initiatives; Kathleen Duffy, a Catholic religious and professor of physics; Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, an assistant dean and a professor of psychology; Azza Karam, a director of women's programs for an interfaith organization; Anna Karpathakis, who teaches behavioral sciences; Judith Lober, founding editor of Gender & Society, Mira Morgenstern, a professor of political science; Vanessa Ochs, a professor of Jewish studies; and Louise M. Temple-Rosebrook, a professor of biology.