Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women
by Susan Neunzig Cahill (Editor)
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Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. These selections feature centuries of this tradition's most intuitive writing: women ancient, medieval, and modern articulate the spiritual dimension of life. From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the contemporary African American poet Lucille Clifton, and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries show more see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom; and it inspires artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of poetry, essays, prayers, letters, memoirs, stories, and theologies by wise women is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. show lessTags
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I read this book for a Women in Religion course in undergrad. I originally borrowed the book but purchased it after the course because I thought it was interesting--and we didn't get to cover all of the writings. If you are interested in the subject of women in religion and how they are represented I highly recommend this book!
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- Paula Gunn Allen; Joan of Arc; Hannah Arendt; Teresa of Avila; Annie Besant; Hildegard of Bingen (show all 77); Anne Bradstreet; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Willa Cather; Pema Chodron; Amy Clampitt; Lucille Clifton; Dorothy Day; Christine de Pisan; Juana Inés de la Cruz; Catherine de Vinck; Emily Dickinson; Rita Dove; Diana Eck; Marian Wright Edelman; George Eliott; Margaret Fell; Natalia Ginzburg; Angelina Grimké; Sarah Grimké; Joan Halifax; Gluckel of Hameln; Patricia Hampl; Riffat Hassan; Carter Heyward; Etty Hillesum; Linda Hogan; bell hooks; Anne Hutchinson; Rebecca Jackson; June Jordan; Kassiani; Margery Kempe; Madeleine L'Engle; Anne Lamott; Ann Lee; Denise Levertov; Audre Lord; Mechthild of Magdeburg; Mahādēviyakka; Nancy Mairs; Rigoberta Menchu; Mirabai; Iris Murdoch; Florence Nightingale; Kathleen Norris; Julian of Norwich; Flannery O'Connor; Tillie Olsen; Iris Origo; Marge Piercy; Judith Plaskow; Marguerite Porete; Rabi'a; Eleanor Roosevelt; Christina Rossetti; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Sappho; Dorothy L. Sayers; Florida Scott-Maxwell; Sidqi; Catherine of Siena; Kabita Sinha; Dorothee Solle; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Starhawk [b. June 17, 1951]; Bu-er Sun; Táhirih; Mother Teresa; Angela Tilby; Phyllis Trible; Sojourner Truth
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 200.82 — Religion The Bible & Christianity Religion Groups of people Feminism--religion
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- BL458 .W545 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religious doctrines (General) Women in comparative religion
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