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Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion

10 best books like Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (Carol P. Christ): Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks, Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
AuthorMary Daly
ISBN0807015032
Daly was popular at seminary, but I didn't get around to reading her until years later. I was visiting an old high school friend in Springfield, Vermont, had finished the book I'd brought along for the trip and asked his wife for recommendations from their substantial library. She suggested Daly.

If...
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy
AuthorGerda Lerner
ISBN0195090608
A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume Women and History Series...
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
AuthorJudith Plaskow
ISBN0060666846
The subject is Jewish feminism, but the book's relevance doesn't end there. Not only does it deal with specifically "feminist" and "Jewish" concerns, it also gets into subjects including hermeneutics, the workings of community, the influence of language in our religious lives, and how one approaches...
Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
AuthorRosemary Radford Ruether
How did a religion whose founding proponents advocated a shocking disregard of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the "traditional" family? In this richly textured history of the relationship between Christianity and the family Rosemary Radford Ruether traces the development of these centerpieces...
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
AuthorElizabeth A. Johnson
ISBN0824519256
I read this during theology studies, though not as part of the curriculum. (I took it with me to West Virginia while doing mission work with church youth groups.) I wish I'd read it sooner. It's changed the way I think about God and the way I think about the institutional church. It helps me that Elizabeth...
Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks
AuthorGary Thorp
ISBN0767907736
Your home is an extension of yourself; therefore, when your home is in turmoil, your life is in turmoil. However, when you attend to your home, you begin to feel less hurried and more in tune with the world around you. There is delight and calm to be found in the midst of washing dishes or changing the water...
Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0060652810
For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has spun magic with words, touching millions of lives and earning a devoted readership with her award-winning fiction, candid reflections on her personal and family life and graceful meditations on faith. Now, Glimpses of Grace captures the essence of L'Engle's...
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...
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0394711556
You are my light; my life’s illumination: you are my refuge, O mother!
Please don’t forsake me, Virgin Mary, you abode of kindness...

So runs one of the popular film songs from my youth – and it pretty much symbolises what the Virgin means to me.

Kerala, unlike other states...
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
AuthorTrinh T. Minh-ha
ISBN0253205034
"...methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious..." -Text and Performance Quarterly

"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further....
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery
AuthorStarhawk
ISBN0062508164
I have a complicated relationship with Starhawk's writing. I am an atheist. I was a teenager when I was introduced to Neo-Paganism, and it was what led me to finally leave my mother's faith, and slowly become an atheist. This book might appear to be filled with crystal waving New Age woo-woo, but Starhawk...
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
AuthorMerlin Stone
ISBN0807067512
I really like this book, but that might surprise people who know me well. That's because I studied Classics and ancient Greek goddesses, and this book does not provide a balanced academic portrayal of the deities. Which is not to say its not well researched, but neither is that the book's point, I suspect....
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth
AuthorTikva Frymer-Kensky
ISBN0029108004
Provides an excellent overview of goddess worship from Sumerian times to the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis upon understanding mythological narratives, polytheism in Ancient Israel, the status of women in the ancient Near East, and debunking certain myths about temple prostitution...
The Women's Bible Commentary with Apocrypha
AuthorCarol A. Newsom
In the critically acclaimed best-seller, Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations...
At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
AuthorCarol Lee Flinders
I really enjoyed this book because it is one of the few positive books on the market discussing feminism within spirituality. The idea that one can be very religious and a good feminist, fighting for the rights of fellow women or setting up ritual in our daily lives to celebrate our womanhood. It was written...
Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life
AuthorKate Braestrup
ISBN1439184267
Prayer is an ancient and simple way to prepare yourself for grace, or love, and to learn to recognize it when it comes. Even the briefest "grace" spoken before dinner offers its time-honored wisdom. Yet in spite of hundreds of traditions and teachings and books about prayer, millions of Americans have...
Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
AuthorDavid A. Leeming
ISBN0195104625
From the fertile earth mothers of the ancient world to the modern revival of interest in Wicca, or witchcraft, images and tales of the Female Divine have flourished and waned, intimidated, comforted, and inspired women and men from time immemorial. In Goddess, authors David Leeming and Jake Page gather...
Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
AuthorJohn Blofeld
ISBN0877731268
She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion. John Blofeld’s...
History of Magic and the Occult
AuthorKurt Seligmann
ISBN0517150328
From the demons of Mesopotamia to those plaguing our own late-20th-century civilization, this comprehensive primer covers every aspect of magic and the occult since earliest recorded time. Spanning 5,000 years of world history it covers every major civilization and includes sections on alchemy,...
The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN0062515381
Discover the Living Wisdom of the Ancient Celts The ancient Celts and their spiritual mediators, the Druids believed in the communion of all living things and sought harmony between nature and the human soul. Now, with this inspiring book of day-by-day mediations, renowned Celtic scholar Caitlín...
Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into Your Everyday Life
AuthorDenise Linn
ISBN0712671579
This beautifully written book offers instruction and inspiration to those who want to integrate altars into their daily lives. Author Denise Linn (Sacred Space, Quest, Sacred Legacies) helps readers become more conscious of what they are already unconsciously doing: creating altars in the kitchen...
How To Be A Wicked Witch: Good Spells, Charms, Potions and Notions for Bad Days
AuthorPatricia J. Telesco
Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
Or perhaps you are a witch who simply wants to make some dramatic, positive changes. The next time you are downsized, dumped on, or jilted, or feel like a drudge, turn to this light-hearted but learned primer on the art of spellcraft. This witty combination of traditional...
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