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Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology

Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

"By the time Ruether finishes, systematic theology has undergone a radical critique from which it emerges transformed rather than simply modified or totally rejected. She has constructed a full-fledged feminist theology—the first within a Christian context." -The New York Times Book Review

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

by Leila Ahmed

This book presents an historical overview of women and gender in Islam. It is written from a feminist perspective, using the analytic tools of contemporary gender studies. The results of its investigations cast new light on the issues covered.

In Memory of Her : A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

In Memory of Her : A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

by Elisabeth Schu?ssler Fiorenza

This is the tenth-anniversary edition of theologian Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's groundbreaking work in which she reexamines the origins of Christianity through the lens of contemporary feminist assumptions.

Women and Redemption: A Theological History (New Vectors in the Study of Religion and Theology)

Women and Redemption: A Theological History (New Vectors in the Study of Religion and Theology)

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Women and Redemption will take readers of Carol Lee Flinders's delightful Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics to the next level. Ruether, the author of the classic text of feminist theology Sexism and God-Talk , here systematically explores questions of gender and redemption chronologically from the time of the New Testament right up to current feminist thinkers (appropriately enough... (more)

Womanspirit Rising (Harper forum books)

by Carol P. Christ

Womanspirit RisingThe classic anthology on feminist spirituality -- Now with an update preface in which the editors discuss its initial reception and continuing impact.

A Woman's Journey to God

by Joan Borysenko

More and more women are abandoning the religious beliefs they were raised with to search for a more authentic-and feminine-spiritual path. In this evocative book, Joan Borysenko-a leading authority on women's spirituality-shows women how their spiritual discontent can pave the way to a deeper, more meaningful faith.

Beyond God the Father : Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

Beyond God the Father : Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

by Mary Daly

"Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time." —The Christian Century "Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself." —The Village Voice

The Creation of Patriarchy (Women & History S.)

The Creation of Patriarchy (Women & History S.)

by Gerda Lerner

A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East. As patriarchy as a system... (more)

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

by Renita J. Weems

Weems' pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion and covenantal commitment became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women.

She Who Is, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. This classic explains what feminist theology is and how can we rediscover the feminine God within the Christian tradition. A profound vision of Christian theology, women’s experience, and emancipation.

She Is Everywhere!: An anthology of writing in womanist/feminist spirituality

She Is Everywhere!: An anthology of writing in womanist/feminist spirituality

by Josephine Macmillan

She Is Everywhere! An Anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality Perhaps the first womanist/feminist anthology which includes women's voices from many cultural and spiritual traditions across the globe from past to present. This book will be enormously useful and stimulating to women's studies classes and the emerging vibrant study of women's spirituality. "By venerating Her I am able to salute the... (more)

Women, Authority & the Bible

Alvera Mickelsen presents a collection of essays from 27 evangelical scholars which address the biblical view of women's roles in church and society.

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

by Amina Wadud

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal interpretation and... (more)

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age

by Sallie McFague

In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God—as mother, lover, and friend.

10 Lies the Church Tells Women

by J. Lee Grady

The gospel was never intended to restrain women from pursuing God or to prevent them from fulfilling their divine destiny. In his revised and updated book, which includes testimonials, Lee Grady boldly proclaims the truth of the gospel—that men and women are appointed by god and empowered by Him. In 10 Lies the Church Tells Women, readers will discover: • Why Jesus went out of His way to minister to and disciple... (more)

CHURCH AND THE SECOND SEX

by Mary Daly

First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition. "A hard-hitting, highly original, and even revolutionary book unmasking the latent anti-feminism in so much Catholic thinking and practice." -Thomas Merton

Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation

Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation

by Carter Heyward

Metaphorical theology: Models of God in religious language

Metaphorical theology: Models of God in religious language

by Sallie McFague

Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology

Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology

by Sallie McFague

This text discusses the importance for theology of narrative and story. The central contention of the book is that, if Jesus' parables are taken as models of theological reflection, there is a form there that unites language, belief and life. A theology taking its cues from parables finds that the genres most closely associated with it are the poem, the novel and the autobiography. These become the prime resources... (more)

Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Internationally acclaimed author and teacher Rosemary Radford Ruether presents a sweeping ecofeminist theology that illuminates a path toward "earth-healing"--a whole relationship between men and women, communities and nations. "This is theology that really matters."--Harvey Cox

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Tags: feminist theology

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

by Leila Ahmed

by Elisabeth Schu?ssler Fiorenza

by Rosemary Radford Ruether

by Carol P. Christ

by Joan Borysenko

by Mary Daly

by Gerda Lerner

by Renita J. Weems

by Elizabeth A. Johnson

by Josephine Macmillan

by Amina Wadud

by Sallie McFague

by J. Lee Grady

by Mary Daly

by Carter Heyward

by Sallie McFague

by Sallie McFague

by Rosemary Radford Ruether