Women and Spirituality

Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism, including new biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Prodding readers to pay attention to their own experiences, Ochs challenges traditional religious concepts such as solitary struggle, otherworldliness, and the spiritual journey to a distant goal, and shows how women's spirituality focuses on relationships with others, commitment to this world, and engagement with the present.

About the author

Carol Ochs is the author of Behind the Sex of God, An Ascent to Joy, The Noah Paradox, and Song of the Self. She teaches spirituality at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Summary

This work demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This edition of the book is revised and updated in the light of 13 years of feminism, including fresh biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ochs, Ochs Carol
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.1996
• EAN: 9780847683291
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8329-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 238 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: New Feminist Perspectives; Studies in Epistemology and Co; New Feminist Perspectives; Studies in Epistemology and Co
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory