Research Catalog

Title

A woman's journey to God : finding the feminine path / Joan Borysenko.

Author

Borysenko, Joan.

Publication

New York : Riverhead Books, 1999.

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Details

Description

xvii, 313 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Studies how women have related to God in different cultures and religions.

Subject

• Spiritual life
• Women > Religious life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface: The power of bear: Reflections on a path of our own -- Introduction: We are all relations: The household of God is big enough for all -- A spiritual pilgrimage: The renewal of faith -- Modern miracles ; The mystery of not knowing -- Trains to glory: Religion and spirituality -- Religious dropouts ; Anger as a first step to healing ; Partners in religion and spirituality ; From religious anger to spiritual experience -- Intuition and reason: Jacob's ladder and Sarah's circle -- Jacob's ladder ; The dark nights of soul making ; Trusting the intuition ; Sarah's circle ; A brain of our own for a path of our own ; Women's wisdom: The intuition network ; Women's relationality: Wired for empathy -- Naming the mystery: Father, mother or other? -- The likeness of the Divine ; God the Father ; Embracing the patriarchy on our own terms ; God the Mother ; Healing ourselves and our image of God ; God as Mother/Father --^
• Developing a relationship to God: Friendship and intimacy, sensuality and sex -- The Anam Care: soul friends ; Holy, passionate sex ; Women as lovers ; God as beloved ; Sensuality, not transcendence -- Spiritual identity and healing: the heroine's journey -- Healing the woman's self-identity ; Authenticity and wholeness ; The descent of Inanna: The secret of love's true power ; Susan's healing: The arts of truth and lovemaking ; The spiritual self -- Voices of our ancestors: Reclaiming women's religious stories -- Of Lilith and Eve: The first storytellers -- Taking Lilith personally ; The Primordial battle of the sexes ; Taking Eve and the snake personally ; Mary Magdalene: The most beloved disciple ; Jesus and Mary Magdalene: A heretical love story ; Jesus and Mary: Partners in the Hieros Gamos -- Ritual and prayer: Gathering in spiritual community --^
• Women's spiritual groups ; Altars in the street ; The science of ritual, intention, and prayer ; The four types of women's ritual ; Earth cycles, seasons, and holidays ; Rituals marking life-cycle passages ; Healing rituals -- Daily life: Doing and being -- White Buffalo Calf Woman ; Balancing male and female aspects in the workplace ; Being true to ourselves in a man's world ; Taking care of ourselves ; The synergy of doing and being ; Being in the natural world ; Surrendering with humor ; Peace of mind is the journey and the destination -- The healing of the world: and strangers shall be as friends.

ISBN

1573221449 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99040416^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library