| THEOLOGY & SPIRITUALITY BOOKS |
| Feminist scholars and theologians are at work within every faith bringing about needed reforms and challenging the systems of domination and abuse. |
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AUTHOR |
DATE |
A God who Looks Like Me:
Discovering Woman-Affirming Spirituality
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Reilly, Patricia Lynn |
1995 |
A Guide for Women IN Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z
Offers guidance on handling graduate school - dissertation writing - promotions - health care - publications - retirement, and more.
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Hunt, Mary E. ed. |
2004 |
After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions
The second-class status of women in history has often been legitimated using negative visions rooted in the theologies of world religions. "One thing is clear: A post-patriarchal age, even if only as an ideal to be approximated, is worthy of commitment by men as well as by women."
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Cooey, Eakin and McDaniel, eds. |
1991 |
| Another Kind of Love: Homosexuality and Spirituality |
Woods, Richard |
1988 |
| At the Root of This Longing:
Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst |
Flinders, Carol |
1998 |
BackTalk! Women Leaders Changing the Church
"Gender issues are important in church change and women leaders must continue to advocate ("talk back") against injustice"
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Willhauck, Susan |
2005 |
| Beyond Patching:
Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church |
Schneiders, Sandra |
1991 |
| Buddhist Women on the Edge:
Contemporary Perspectives from the Western Frontier |
Dresser, Marianne |
1996 |
| Christian Feminism: Visions of a New Humanity |
Weidman, Judith, ed. |
1984 |
| Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique |
Brown, Joanne and
Carole Bohn, eds. |
1989 |
Co-Creating: A Feminist Vision of Ministry
Examines the issues central to a Christian feminist vision of ministry.
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Rhodes, Lynn |
1987 |
| Coming Out Within:
Stages of Spiritual Awakening for Lesbians and Gay Men |
O'Neill, Craig and
Kathleen Ritter |
1992 |
| Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context |
Meyers, Carol |
1988 |
Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Spiritual Journey
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Willis, Jan |
2001 |
Feminism and Religion
"An enormously encouraging and utterly fair account of how much the feminist approach to religious studies has accomplished in the last twenty-five years—and a sobering yet hopeful description of how much still needs to be done."
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Goss, Rita |
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Feminist Hermeneutics
Dedicated to the first ordained women in India, and their continuing journey
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Ralte, Lalrinawmi, ed. |
2002 |
Feminist Interpretation of the Bible
A collection of essaysaimed at liberating the Word from the 'patriarchal captivity' |
Russell, Letty, ed. |
1985 |
| Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect |
Reuther, Rosemary Radford, ed. |
2007 |
Feminist Theology: A Reader
Selections from the best and most influential writers of Christian Feminism |
Loades, Ann ed. |
1990 |
Fundamentalism & Gender
"Gender provides a critical key to unlocking the dynamics of what fundamentalism is. The essays in this book examine the connection between fundamentalism and gender in Islam, Hinduism, the New Religions of Japan, and American Christianity."
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Hawley, John, ed. |
1994 |
| Good Catholic Girls |
Bonavoglia, Andrea |
2006 |
In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness
"Womanist spirituality is not only a way of living, it is a style of witness that seeks to cross the yawning chasm of hatred and prejudice and oppression in to a deeper and richer love of God."
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Townes, Emilie |
1995 |
| In Memory of Her:
A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins |
Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schussler |
1983 |
| Mary — The Feminine Face of the Church |
Ruether, Rosemary Radford |
1977 |
| Models of God: Theology for an Ecological Nuclear Age |
McFague, Sally |
1986 |
On Being A Jewish Feminist: A Reader
“ superb collection of essays on the feminist side of Judaism and the woman as ‘outsider’.”
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Heschel, Susannah, ed. |
1983 |
On Women & Judaism
"There is much to be learned from the women’s movement that can enhance the quality of our lives as Jews. For feminists there is much to be gained from a serious regard of traditional Jewish values." |
Greenberg, Blu |
1998 |
| Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America |
Aquino, Maria Pilar |
1993 |
| Reformed and Feminist: A Challenge to the Church |
van Wijk-Bos, Johanna |
1991 |
Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roiles Inside the Mainstream
Documents the movement of women into positions of leadership and ministry in mainline American Judaism and Christianity and evaluates how this will reshape traditional religions in the United States.
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Wessinger, Catherine |
1996 |
Reimagining the Divine:
Confronting the Backlash against Feminist Theology |
Schneider, Laurel |
1998 |
Revisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens
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It begins with the notion that women see the text differently than men do, ask different questions and bring different answers…. This book is not about rewriting the Torah. It is about rereading it." |
Goldstein, Elyse |
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| Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Commentary |
Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth, ed. |
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| Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology |
Ruether, Rosemary Radford |
1983 |
She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism
"NO, NOT EVEN my favorite teacher[Elie Wiesel] understood the depth of pain I felt about traditional Jewish attitudes to women..." |
Gottlieb, Lynn |
1995 |
Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women
"
Hammer’s collection of new midrashim breathes a woman’s breath into ancient narratives." |
Hammer, Jill |
2004 |
| Speech, Silence, Action! The Cycle of Faith |
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey |
1980 |
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
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The need for a feminist Judaism begins with hearing silence. It begins with noting the absence of women’s history and experiences as shaping forces in the Jewish tradition." |
Plaskow, Judith |
1990 |
| The Church and the Second Sex |
Daly, Mary |
1985 |
| The Divine Feminine: Biblical Imagery of God as Female |
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey |
1983 |
| The Politics of Women's Spirituality |
Spretnak, Charlene |
1982 |
| The Spiral Dance:
A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess |
Starhawk |
1989 |
| The Woman's Bible |
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady |
1898 |
| The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects |
Walker, Barbara |
1988 |
| The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets |
Walker, Barbara |
1983 |
| Through Her Eyes:
Women's Theology from Latin America |
Tamez, Elsa, ed. |
1989 |
| Towards an Islamic Feminist Hermeneutic |
Jeenah, Na'eem |
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| Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality |
Plaskow, Judith and Carol Christ, eds. |
1989 |
What's Faith Got to Do with It? Black Bodies/Christian Souls
"Douglas traces the roots of what she sees as a 'heretical' tradition of an oppressive Christianity, but also vindicates the liberating, prophetic Christianity of her mother and grandmother." |
Douglas, Kelly Brown |
2005 |
| White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response |
Grant, Jacquelyn |
1989 |
| Wisdom's Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration |
Cady, Susan, Marian Ronan and Hal Taussig |
1986 |
| With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism and the Future |
Schneiders, Sandra |
2000 |
| With Passion and Compassion:
Third World Women doing Theology |
Fabella, Virginia and
Mercy Amda Oduyoye |
1988 |
| Women's Bible Commentary |
Newsome, Carol and Sharon Ringe, eds. |
1989 |
Women-Church: Theology & Practice
"Shatters the patriarchialism of a church that has excluded women from everything but cleaning up around the master's table" |
Ruether, Rosemary Radford |
1986 |
Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism
" …some of today’s brightest Jewish writers offer wide-ranging, comprehensive answers to the key questions facing young Jewish feminists today." |
Heschel, Susannah |
2001 |
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