Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise (Women in Society: A Feminist List)

by UrsulaKing (Author), UrsulaKing (Author)

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  Paperback
  1988

  $4.52

  Written from a cross-cultural perspective, this book attempts to take a critical look at the feminist challenge to traditional religion, examining the spiritual dimension of women's experience in relation to questions of identity, liberation and transcendence. The author also discusses women mystics, goddess worship, matriarchy, androgyny and feminist theology as well as the spiritual aspects of the peace and ecology movements. The author's previous works include Women in the World's Religions, Past and Present and Towards a New Mysticism: Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions .

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $25.39

  Taking a critical look at feminism and exploring its explicit and implicit spiritual dimensions, this revised and updated new edition of Women and Spirituality engages in a reflective dialogue with contemporary women's voices. It asks to what extent patriarchal oppression and androcentric thinking are inherent not only in Christianity but in all religious beliefs, practices and institutions. This is the only book which provides a comprehensive survey of current discussions in feminist theology and spirituality and offers a wide-ranging account of women and world religions and raising thought-provoking questions about the spiritual dimensions of human life.

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $52.71

  Taking a critical look at feminism and exploring its explicit and implicit spiritual dimensions, this revised and updated new edition of Women and Spirituality engages in a reflective dialogue with contemporary women's voices. It asks to what extent patriarchal oppression and androcentric thinking are inherent not only in Christianity but in all religious beliefs, practices and institutions. This is the only book which provides a comprehensive survey of current discussions in feminist theology and spirituality and offers a wide-ranging account of women and world religions and raising thought-provoking questions about the spiritual dimensions of human life.