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"All Out of Faith gives voice to southern women writers who represent a broad spectrum of faiths, Catholic to Baptist, Jewish to Buddhist, and points in between. These essays and stories depict women who have experienced spiritual struggles, awakenings, transformations, and rebellions"--Publisher website (April 2007).
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"Sheron Patterson argues that African American Christian women need "New Faith" for their personal survival and revival. Grounded in a sturdy faith in Jesus Christ, she turns the clear light of Black women's religious insights on churches, mothers, brothers, fathers, and - most of all - on Black Christian women themselves. Passionately and poignantly she urges women to seek a better existence for themselves by eradicating unnecessary suffering and...
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La bella y sensible Ana Ozores, recién casada con un maduro ex-regente de su audiencia, se ve acosada por el donjuán de la ciudad y por el magistral de la catedral.
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Slaying the Mermaid addresses the great numbers of women, of all ages, who find themselves constantly disregarding their own well-being to put the needs of others first - even against their will and contrary to their principles - because they cannot face the guilt they would feel if they didn't. Drawing on conversations with experts and a diverse array of women, Stephanie Golden examines the dichotomy between selfhood and sacrifice. Using the image...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most important religious symbol of Mexico and one of the most powerful female icons of Mexican culture. In this study, based on research done among second-generation Mexican-American women, Rodriguez examines the role the symbol of Guadalupe has played in the development of these women. She goes beyond the thematic and religious implications of the symbol to delve into its relevance to their daily lives. Rodriguez's study...
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After lifetime of practice and study later, Firestone sets out to restore the matrilineal line to the patriarchal culture and practice of Judaism. Firestone selects seven women from the recent to the distant past who represent aspects of the "feminine" that have been lost or devalued over the course of Jewish study and practice.
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By the Middle Ages, women's roles as defined by the Church were strictly circumscribed; however, alternate role models were also available, beginning with the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and the transvestite saints from the early Church. This program examines the options available to women living in the 12th through 15th centuries and how some subverted traditional roles in order to discover and express their own freedom, dignity, and power. Professors...
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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...
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You may have a beautiful home, a family you adore, and work that you enjoy. But why do you secretly sense that you need something more to be truly happy? Because it's true. In this book, Sarah Ban Breathnach encourages you to become an archaeologist of your Self---to plumb your past with its unfulfilled longings, forgotten pleasures, and abandoned dreams, to 'excavate' the authentic woman buried inside. Uncovering your authentic self will be challenging---but...
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Sacred Pampering Principles is a beautifully written guide to balanced living with hundreds of easy and innovative ways for African-American women to pamper themselves physically and spiritually. With her holistic, self-care approach to filling your life with comfort, joy, and peace, Debrena Jackson Gandy debunks the common belief that doing something for yourself is decadent and selfish. In fact, she says, the joy we gain from nurturing ourselves...
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"In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend...
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"Cristina Mazzoni savors the food writings and images of a broad spectrum of Catholic saints and holy women. A native of Italy and a splendid cook herself. Mazzoni accords due attention to her fellow countrywomen, as well she should given the importance of Italian cookery (Catherine of Genoa, Angela of Foligno, Gemma Galgani), but includes numerous other holy women and their cuisines as well: Germany (Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schonau, and...
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In her new book, leading religion scholar Carol Christ provides a comprehensive guide to understanding what has now become the Goddess spirituality movement. A uniquely original voice in religious studies, Christ brings together her personal experience and her academic expertise to explain the principles, practices, and beliefs that have shaped feminist spirituality. Drawing from the fields of history, art, literature, and philosophy, among others,...
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