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The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Gender provides both an overview of the current state of play in the field of gender studies and religion and an introduction to contemporary innovations and new directions. In recent years religious scholars have begun to fully explore the intersections of gender with race, nationalism, sexuality, corporeality, and class and economic status and this volume represents the renewed richness and vitality of the field. Deborah Sawyer and Sian Hawthorne have brought together a collection of x essays from the leading lights in the field to consider topics as diverse as French feminism, Islam and masculinity, religion and gender in the Greco-Roman world and the rise of mind, body and spirit culture. Taken together these entries represent the most comprehensive and up to date overview of religion and gender available.