Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : on women and interreligious dialogue / Catherine Cornille -- Women and interfaith relations : toward a transnational feminism / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Gift to the prophet from a king : the politics of women in interreligious dialogue / Jeannine Hill Fletcher -- Epistemology and embodiment in women's interreligious dialogue / Mara Brecht -- Dialogue in times of war : Christian women's rescue of Jews in Hitler's Germany / Katharina Von Kellenbach -- Abraham and his family at the interfaith border edge : asking the overlooked question of gender / Nancy Fuchs Kreimer -- Meeting at the well of spiritual direction : a Jewish feminist perspective / Sue Levi Elwell -- Constructive interreligious dialogue concerning Muslim women / Zayn Kassam -- The Qur'anic rib-ectomy : scriptural purity, imperial dangers, and other obstacles to the interfaith engagement of feminist Qur'anic interpretation / Aysha Hidayatullah -- Women negotiating between religions and cultures : the case of Chinese Muslims in Hong Kong / Wai Ching Angela Wong -- Beyond beauty : aesthetics and emotion in interreligious dialogue / Michelle Voss Roberts -- The knowing body : currents of connection and women in religious dialogue / Anne Carolyn Klein (Rigzin Drolma) -- What do women bring to the dialogue table? / Rita M. Gross.

"Though women have been objects more often than subjects of interreligious dialogue, they have nevertheless contributed in significant ways to the dialogue, just as the dialogue has also contributed to their own self-understanding. This volume, the fifth in the Interreligious Dialogue Series, brings together historical, critical, and constructive approaches to the role of women in the dialogue between religions. These approaches deal with concrete examples of women's involvement in dialogue, critical reflections on the representation of women in dialogue, and the important question of what women might bring to the dialogue. Together, they open up new avenues for reflection on the nature and purpose of interreligious dialogue."--Page 4 of cover.