women and religion

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The Public Universal Friend

Jemima Wilkinson and religious enthusiasm in revolutionary America

Encyclopedia of women and world religion

1999
Contains over three hundred articles that examine topics related to women's history and experience in world religion; covering a period that ranges from the beginning of time through the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically from A-to-K.
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Priestesses

1990

Wise women

over two thousand years of spiritual writing by women
1996
Includes approximately ninety writings by women from ancient, medieval, and modern times, addressing various aspects of the spiritual life, such as love of God and nature, desire for healing, prayer, friendship, and the experience of emptiness.

Half the church

recapturing God's global vision for women
2010
Women comprise at least half the world, and usually more than half the church, but so often Christian teaching to women either fails to move beyond a discussion of roles or assumes a particular economic situation or stage of life. This all but shuts women out from contributing to God's kingdom as they were designed to do. Furthermore, the plight of women in the Majority World demands a Christian response, a holistic embrace of all that God calls women and men to be in his world. The loudest voices speaking into women's lives in the twenty-first century thus far come from either fundamentalist Islam or radical feminism. And neither can be allowed to carry the day. The Bible contains the highest possible view of women and invests women's lives with cosmic significance regardless of their age, stage of life, social status, or culture. Carolyn Custis James unpacks three transformative themes the Bible presents to women that raise the bar for women and calls them to join their brothers in advancing God's gracious kingdom on earth. These new images of what can be in Christ free women to embrace the life God gives them, no matter what happens. Carolyn encourages readers with a positive, kingdom approach to the changes, challenges, and opportunities facing women throughout the world today.

Bare your soul

the thinking girl's guide to enlightenment
2002
Contains twenty-five essays in which young women of various backgrounds and traditions who were born into the third generation of feminism discuss their investigations of spirituality and how their beliefs affect their lives and identities.

Drawing down the moon

witches, Druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America today
1986

Priestess, mother, sacred sister

religions dominated by women
1994

Women & religion

reinterpreting Scriptures to find the sacred feminine
2006

Leaders

1991
Capsule biographies of prominent women in such fields as politics, science, religion, business, and literature.

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