Spirituality
Books on women and spirituality in general:
Anderson, Sherry Ruth and Hopkins, Patricia (1991) The
Feminine Face of God: the unfolding of the sacred in women, Bantam Books,
New York
Christ, Carol P, and Plaskow, Judith, (eds) (1989)
Womanspirit rising: a feminist reader in religion, Harper SanFransisco,
New York
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola (1992) Women who run with the
wolves: contacting the power of the wild woman Rider, London
Holm, Jean and Bowker, John, (1994) Women in Religion,
Continuum, London
Speck, Peter (2001) Spirituality and well-being in women
over 45 years – a topic ripe for study? Pennell
Initiative for Women’s Health, Huddersfield.
Turner, Kay (1999) Beautiful necessity: the art and
meaning of women’s altars, Thames and Hudson, London
Books drawing from specific religious traditions:
Buddhism
Boucher, Sandy (1997) Opening the lotus: a woman’s
guide to Buddhism, Beacon Press, Boston
Dresser, Marianne, (1996) (ed) Buddhist women on the
edge: contemporary perspectives from the western frontier, North Atlantic
Books, Berkeley, California
Christianity
Fischer, Kathleen (1996) Moving On: a spiritual journey
for women of maturity, SPCK, London
Guenther, Margaret (1996) Toward Holy Ground: spiritual
directions for the second half of life, Darton, Longman and Todd, London
Slee, Nicola (2001) Apophatic faithing in women’s
spirituality British Journal of Theological Education 11, 2, 23-37
Goddess spirituality
Bolen, Jean Shinoda (2001) Goddesses in older women:
archetypes in women over fifty, HarperCollins, New York
Christ, Carol P (1997) Rebirth of the Goddess: finding
meaning in feminist spirituality, Routledge, New York
Starhawk (1999) The Spiral Dance: a rebirth of the ancient
religion of the great goddess, Harper, San Fransisco, New York
Islam
Roald, Anne Sofie (1999) Women in Islam: the western
experience, Routledge, London
Judaism
Plaskow, Judith (1990) Standing again at Sinai: Judaism
from a feminist perspective
HarperCollins, New York
The web has comparatively little material on women’s spirituality
within most of the established religious traditions. Typing ‘Goddess’
into a search engine, however, will produce interesting results!
The BBC web-site has a large section
on religion and ethics which gives summaries of many forms of religion
and spirituality.
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