Research Catalog

Title

Womanspirit rising : a feminist reader in religion / edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow.

Publication

San Francisco : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1979]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Christ, Carol P.
• Plaskow, Judith

Description

xi, 287 pages; 21 cm

Series Statement

Harper forum books ; RD 275

Uniform Title

Harper forum books.

Alternative Title

• Woman spirit rising
• Feminist reader in religion

Subject

• Women and religion
• Feminism > Religious aspects
• Feministische Theologie
• Feministische theologie
• Feminist theology
• Women > Religious aspects
• Christianity and other religions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The essential challenge: does theology speak to women's experience? The human situation : a feminine view / Valerie Saiving ; Mother earth and the mega machine / Rosemary Radford Ruether ; After the death of God the Father / Mary Daly -- The Past: does it hold a future for women? Reflections on the meaning of her story / Sheila Collins ; Eve and Adam : Genesis 2-3 reread / Phyllis Trible ; Women in the early Christian movement / Elisabeth Fiorenza ; The Christian past : does it hold a future for women? / Eleanor McLaughlin ; What became of God the mother? / Elaine Pagels ; When God was a woman / Merlin Stone -- Reconstructing tradition. Feminist spirituality, Christian identity, and Catholic vision / Elisabeth Fiorenza ; Theology in the politics of Appalachian women / Sheila Collins ; The dilemma of celebration / Nelle Morton ; Female god language in a Jewish context / Rita Gross ; Sabbath prayers for women / Naomi Janowitz, Maggie Wenig ; Bringing a daughter into the covenant / Judith Plaskow ; A Jewish woman's Haggadah / Aviva Cantor -- Creating new traditions. The coming of Lilith : toward a feminist theology / Judith Plaskow ; Why speak about God? / Mary Daly ; Dreams and fantasies as sources of revelation : feminist appropriation of Jung / Naomi R. Goldenberg ; Spiritual quest and women's experience / Carol P. Christ ; Becoming woman : menstruation as spiritual experience / Penelope Washbourn ; Witchcraft and women's culture / Starhawk ; Self-blessing ritual / Zsuzsanna E. Budapest ; Why women need the goddess : phenomenological, psychological, and political reflections / Carol P. Christ.

ISBN

• 0060613858
• 9780060613853

LCCN

78003363

OCLC

• ocm04496522
• 4496522
• SCSB-11965

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library