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10 best books like A Woman's Journey to God (Joan Borysenko): Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Mystics and Zen Masters, The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Once and Future Goddess, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, Original Blessing, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion
AuthorCarol P. Christ
ISBN0060613777
This text had been low on my Feminist Theology To-Reads simply because it was so often quoted since that I thought it might be redundant to read. But I kept feeling nudged to sit down with it on its own terms instead of others' summaries. My reading of it is strangely bittersweet.

As one of the foundational...
Mystics and Zen Masters
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0374520011
Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness....
The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
AuthorEsther de Waal
ISBN0385493746
Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people.

Esther de Waal introduces...
Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness
AuthorPatricia Lynn Reilly
ISBN1573241695
Imagine A Woman In Love With Herself is based on twenty stanzas of Patricia Lynn Reilly's popular poem "Imagine a Woman." The book holds up a womanaffirming mirror and invites women to look upon themselves with loving kindness. The book empowers women to move from selfloathing to selflove, from selfcriticism...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess

Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
The Once and Future Goddess
AuthorElinor W. Gadon
ISBN0062503545
A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary...
When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
AuthorLayne Redmond
ISBN0609801287
Redmond's thesis is quite fascinating, and it is wonderful to see this area of oft-overlooked women's spirituality and religion come to light. However, I was a little disappointed in the writing of this book, finding it straying too far from the intended topic of the history of women's drumming practices....
Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
AuthorCarol Lee Flinders
ISBN0060626453
Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven...
Original Blessing
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN1585420670
Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995. Maverick theologian Matthew Fox provides a daring view of historical Christianity and a theologically sound basis for personal discovery of...
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
AuthorSherry Ruth Anderson
ISBN0553352660
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women...
SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups
AuthorSeena B. Frost
SoulCollage™ is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life's questions. Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around,...
The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
AuthorBarbara G. Walker
ISBN0062509349
I applaud Walker for the extensive reading she's done in anthropology, archetype psychology and history, but I find her arguments too extreme. Even the most basic reciting of facts are put into a narrative that is extremely negative towards all men through all history. While I do agree that societies...
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
AuthorThomas Moore
ISBN0060928247
Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for one's personal and collective survival. With his lens focused on specific aspects...
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
AuthorSuzanne Braun Levine
ISBN0452287219
The first editor of Ms. magazine helps women address the three crucial questions of second adulthood: What matters? What works? What's next?

New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and...
Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity
AuthorMarion Woodman
ISBN0877738963
The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture--as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal journeys of three wise women as maps, she...
Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me
AuthorBeverly Donofrio
ISBN0140196277
Entering her fortieth year, Beverly Donofrio, a "lapsed Catholic," inexplicably begins collecting Virgin Mary memorabilia at yard sales. Her search for kitsch, however, soon becomes a spiritual quest, leading her to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje. There, she learns that Mary comes...
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth
AuthorLauren Artress
ISBN1573225479
Walking a Sacred Path reintroduces the ancient Labyrinth, a walking meditation that transcends the limits of still meditation. Walking the Labyrinth has emerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical...
The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
AuthorWayne Teasdale
This book is both a summary of various mystic traditions and practices, as well as a guidebook to a life in mystic spirituality. It is well-written, well-researched, with a style and tone equally balanced between scholarly neutrality and personal conviction. It is a book worthy of re-reading.

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The Book of Goddesses & Heroines
AuthorPatricia Monaghan
ISBN0875425739
‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، زنده یاد بانو <مانوگان> پژوهشِ بسیار خوب و نسبتاً کاملی را انجام داده است
‎بسیاری از موضوعاتی که در این کتاب آورده شده با اخبار و...
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
AuthorJudith Plaskow
ISBN0060613831
This book made my mind explode when I read it in the early 1990s. This book connected me to a history of women in religious life and to a more fuller and complex understanding of God's nature that I had ever previously thought possible. Would it hit someone with the same impact today? It depends upon your...
The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages That Shape Our Lives
AuthorHarry R. Moody
ISBN0385486774
In a groundbreaking book that interweaves twenty years of case studies and research in the field of aging with an exhaustive knowledge of psychology, religion, and literature, Harry R. Moody, cofounder and director of the Brookdale Institute of Aging, reveals the spiritual passages that the vast...
How Much Joy Can You Stand?
AuthorSuzanne Falter
ISBN0991124820
If you're an entrepreneur holding tight to that big idea, a writer with writer's block, or anyone afraid to go for it, this is the book for you. Newly updated, this little creativity classic packs a punch. In fresh, funny language amply laced with wisdom, How Much Joy Can You Stand? gives you a wealth of...
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