Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.pagan
From: oispeggy@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Subject: bibliographies of woman's spirituality...(merton-l xpost)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 02:35:00 GMT

Cross-posted with the author's (Coeur de Lion) permission.

Enjoy!

- Peggy -

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Dear Readers:

	In the discussion about women's spirituality and "women and
contemplation" (a theme largely unknown), one thing i noted is the
amalgamation of sources about this deep and difficult subject via the
bibliographic suggestions. I am sending now two distinct
bibliographies, organized around what appears to be, on superficial
observation, two poles of the subject of women's spirituality: one on
the contemporary theme of "goddess and wise woman" (eco-ontology)
happening outside the context of theological studies and the other
theme "christian holy women" (onto- theology) as a primarily Christian
realm of discourse and concern. Please regard my fumbling attempts as
merely introductory, others, wiser than i, will surely sorted this out
more accutely. The first bib follows.

Coeur de Lion

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                         Women's Spirituality

                            Eco-Ontology


Adler, Margot. Drawing down the moon : witches, Druids, goddess
 worshippers, and other pagans in America today / Rev. and expanded ed.
 Boston : Beacon Press, c1986. xv, 595 p., 9 p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
 LC CALL NUMBER: BF1573 .A34 1986 

Ardinger, Barbara, 1941- A woman's book of rituals & celebrations / San
 Rafael, CA : New World Library, c1992. 212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL
 NUMBER: BL625.7 .A55 1992 

Austen, Hallie Iglehart. The heart of the goddess : art, myth and
 meditations of the world's sacred feminine / 1st ed. Berkeley, Calif. ;
 Wingbow Press, 1990. xxiv, 174 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL473.5
 .A96 1990 

Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath, 1934- The Indian mother goddess / 2d ed.,
 thoroughly rev. and enl. New Delhi : Manohar Book Service, 1977. xv, 319
 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL2015.M68 B47 1977 

Campanelli, Dan, 1949- Circles, groves & sanctuaries : sacred spaces of
 today's pagans / St. Paul, Minn. : Llewellyn Publications, 1992. xvi, 268
 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL580 .C36 1992 

Christ, Carol P. Laughter of Aphrodite : reflections on a journey to the
 goddess / 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1987. xviii, 238 p. :
 ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL458 .C48 1987 

Condren, Mary. The serpent and the goddess : women, religion, and power in
 Celtic Ireland / 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1989. xxv, 268 p.
 ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: HQ1600.3 .C66 1989 

Eller, Cynthia. Living in the lap of the Goddess : the feminist
 spirituality movement in America / New York : Crossroad, 1993. p. cm. 

Erndl, Kathleen M. Victory to the Mother : the Hindu goddess of northwest
 India in myth, ritual, and symbol / New York : Oxford University Press,
 1993. viii, 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL1216.4.P86 E76 1993 

Farrar, Janet. The witches' goddess : the feminine principle of
 divinity /London : R. Hale, 1987. 319 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 25
 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL473.5 .F37 1987 

Gates, Doris, 1901- The warrior goddess, Athena / Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
 England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1982, c1972. 121 p. :
 ill. ; 20 cm.

George, Demetra, 1946- Mysteries of the dark moon : the healing power of
 the dark goddess / 1st ed. San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco,
 c1992. 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL325.M56 G46 1992 

Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaite, 1921- The civilization of the goddess / 1st
 ed. San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, c1991. xi, 529 p. : ill. ;
 28 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: GN799.R4 G54 1991 

Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaite, 1921- The language of the goddess : unearthing
 the hidden symbols of western civilization / San Francisco : Harper & Row,
 c1989. xxiii, 388 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. LC CALL
 NUMBER: BL473.5 .G55 1989 

Gleason, Judith Illsley. Oya : in praise of an African goddess / 1st
 HarperCollins ed. San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, c1992. viii,
 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL2480.Y6 G57 1992 

Goddesses in religions and modern debate / Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press,
 1990. viii, 227 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL473.5 .G63 1990 

Graves, Robert, 1895- The White Goddess; a historical grammar of poetic
 myth. Amended and enl. ed. New York, Octagon Books, 1972 c1948 511 p. 21
 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PN1077 .G7 1972 

Harman, William P., 1946- The sacred marriage of a Hindu goddess /
 Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989. 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC
 CALL NUMBER: BL1225.M48 H37 1989 

Hiltebeitel, Alf. The cult of Draupadi / Chicago : University of Chicago
 Press, 1988-<1991> v. <1-2 > ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL1138.4.D72 H55
 1988 

Jacobson, Esther. The deer goddess of ancient Siberia : a study in the
 ecology of belief / Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993. xxii, 291 p. :
 ill., map ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL2300 .J33 1993 

Johnson, Sally B. (Sally Barber), 1921- The cobra goddess of ancient Egypt
 : Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods / London ; New York
 : Kegan Paul International ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed by Routledge,
 Chapman & Hall, 1990. xxv, 276 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. LC CALL NUMBER:
 BL2450.C62 J64 1990 

Kane, Herb Kawainui. Pele : goddess of Hawaii's volcanoes / Captain Cook,
 Hawaii : Kawainui Press, c1987. 63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. LC CALL
 NUMBER: BL2620.H3 K35 1987 

Knight, Gareth. Evoking the goddess : initiation, worship, and the eternal
 feminine in the western mysteries / Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books ; S.l.
 : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. by American I nternational
 Distribution Corp., c1992. p. cm. 

Lucian, of Samosata. The Syrian goddess = (De dea Syria) ; attributed to
 Lucian / Missoula, Mont. : Published by Scholars Press for the Society of
 Biblical Literature, c1976. 61 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL1060 .L7813 

Mascetti, Manuela Dunn. The song of Eve : mythology and symbols of the
 goddess / New York : Simon & Schuster, c1990. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ;
 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL473.5 .M33 1990 

Matthews, Caitlin, 1952- Sophia--goddess of wisdom : the divine feminine
 from black goddess to world-soul / London : Mandala, an imprint of
 HarperCollins, 1991. viii, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL215.5
 .M38 1990 

Meador, Betty De Shong, 1931- Uncursing the dark: treasures from the
 underworld / Wilmette, Ill. : Chiron Publications, c1992. xv, 166 p. :
 ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: GN483.3 .M43 1992 

Nasstrom, Britt-Mari. O mother of the gods and men : some aspects of the
 religious thoughts in Emperor Julian's Discourse on the mother of the gods
 / Lund : Plus Ultra, 1990. 142 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL820.C8 N37
 1990 

Paris, Ginette, 1946- Pagan grace : Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in
 daily life / Dallas, Tex. : Spring Publications, 1990. viii, 152 p. ; 23
 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL820.B2 P37 1990 

Patai, Raphael, 1910- The Hebrew goddess / 3rd enl. ed. / foreword by
 Merlin Stone. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c1990. 368
 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BS1183 .P38 1990 

Pettey, Richard J. Asherah : goddess of Israel / New York : P. Lang, c1990.
 viii, 231 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL1605.A7 P48 1990 

Qualls-Corbett, Nancy. The sacred prostitute : eternal aspect of the
 feminine / Toronto, Canada : Inner City Books, c1988. 171 p. : ill. ; 22
 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: HQ1206 .Q35 1988 

Rhie, Marylin M. The bodhisattva and the goddess : deities of compassion in
 Buddhist and Hindu art : exhibition , Smith College Museum of Art,
 Northampton, Massachusetts, April 10-May 26, 1980 / Northampton, Mass. :
 The Museum, 1980 v, 68 p., 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm. LC
 CALL NUMBER: N8193.3.B643 N677 

Rizzotti, Michel A. God, myth, and metaphor : the profane reality of the
 goddess / Los Angeles, Calif. : Northshore Pub. (P.O. Box 25398, Los
 Angeles 90025), c1992 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL473.5 .R58
 1992 

Rufus, Anneli S. Goddess sites, Europe : discover places where the Goddess
 has been celebrated and worshipped throughout time / 1st ed. San Francisco
 : HarperSanFrancisco, c1991. xiv, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 X 11 cm. LC CALL
 NUMBER: BL581.E85 R84 1991 

Sjoo, Monica, 1938- The great cosmic mother : rediscovering the religion of
 the earth / 2nd ed. San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, 1991. xxi,
 501 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. 

Srivastava, M. C. P. (Mahesh Chandra Prasad), 1934- Mother goddess in
 Indian art, archaeology & literature / Delhi : Agam, 1979 i.e. 1978 xiv,
 231 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL2015.M68 S74
 1978 

Starhawk. The spiral dance : a rebirth of the ancient religion of the great
 goddess / 10th anniversary ed., with new introd. and chapter-by-chapter
 commentary. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1989. x, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
 LC CALL NUMBER: BF1566 .S77 1989 

Stone, Merlin. Ancient mirrors of womanhood : a treasury of goddess and
 heroine lore from around the world / Boston : Beacon Press, c1991. xx, 425
 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL325.F4 S76 1991 

The Goddess celebrates : an anthology of women's rituals / Freedom, CA :
 Crossing Press, c1991. 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL625.7 .G63
 1991 

Walker, Barbara G. The I ching of the goddess / 1st ed. San Francisco :
 Harper & Row, c1986. 114 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. LC
 CALL NUMBER: BF1751 .W35 1986 

Walls, Neal H., 1962- The goddess Anat in Ugaritic myth / Atlanta, Ga. :
 Scholars Press, c1992. xi, 256 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL1645.A53 W35
 1992 (A friend of mine) 

Whitmont, Edward C., 1912- Return of the goddess / New York : Crossroad,
 1982. xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL325.F4 W44 1982 

Wilshire, Donna, 1933- Virgin mother crone : myths and mysteries of the
 triple goddess / Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions ; s.l. : Distributed in
 the U.S. by American International Distribution, c1994. p. 
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Dear Readers

	A second bib on another pole of this complex puzzle, gender
different paths of spiritual connectedness to earth, sea and sky or
transcendent heavens and musical spheres. I note the cross over in the
person of Mary who, unrecognized within the divine hierarchy,
nevertheless, emmanates Her own special kind of spirtual
vitality...provides an image of potential rebirth and
reconfiguration--no longer virgin, of that, i feel certain.

Coeur de Lion
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                            Women's Spirituality

                              Onto-Theological


Ashe, Geoffrey. The virgin : Mary's cult and the re-emergence of the 
  Goddess  / London ; New York  : Arkana, 1988. xi, 261 p.  20 cm.
  LC NUMBER: BT645 .A85  

Benko, Stephen, 1924-  The virgin goddess : studies in pagan and Christian 
  roots of Mariology / Leiden ; New York : E. J. Brill, 1993. vi, 293 p.
  : 8 ill. ; 24 cm. LC NUMBER: BT612 .B46

Bouyer, Louis, 1913-  Women mystics : Hadewijch of Antwerp, Teresa of Avila,
  Therese of Lisieux, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Edith  Stein /  San Francisco
  : Ignatius Press, c1993.  197 p. ; 21 cm. 
  LC CALL NUMBER: BV5095.A1 B6813 1993                                      

Bynum , Caroline Walker.  Fragmentation and redemption : essays on gender and  
  the human body in Medieval religion /  New York : Zone 
  Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1991.  426 p. :  
  LC CALL NUMBER: BT741.2 .B95 1990                                         

Cady, Susan.  Sophia : the future of feminist spirituality /  1st  ed.  San    
  Francisco : Harper & Row, c1986.  103 p. ; 22 cm.   
  LC CALL NUMBER: BL625.7 .C33 1986                                         

Campbell J. & C. Muses, eds. In all her names : explorations of the feminine
  in divinity / {San Francisco} : HarperSanFrancisco, {1991}  177 p. : ill. ;
  22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL215.5 .I5 1991

Christ, Carol & Judith Plaskow, eds. Womanspirit rising : a feminist reader in
  religion /  {San Francisco} : HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.  xiii, 297 p. ; 21
  cm.             

Clark, Gillian. Women in late antiquity : pagan and Christian life-styles /
  Gillian Clark.  Oxford, Clarendon Press New York, Oxford University Press,
  1993.  xix, 158 p., {4} p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: HQ1127
  .C53 1993

Collis, Louise.  Memoirs of a medieval woman; the life and times of Margery    
  Kempe.  New York, Crowell {1964}  269 p. illus. 22 cm.  
  LC CALL NUMBER: PR2007.K4 Z72                                             

Conn, Joann Wolski. Women's spirituality : resources for Christian development 
  New York : Paulist Press, c1986.  viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
  LC CALL NUMBER: BV4527 .W595 1986                                         

Dreyer, Elizabeth, 1945-  Passionate women : two medieval mystics /  New York  
  : Paulist Press, c1989.  v, 89 p. ; 17 cm.    
  LC CALL NUMBER: BV5077.G3 D74 1989                                        

Elliott, Dyan, 1954-  Spiritual marriage : sexual abstinence in medieval
  wedlock / Dyan Elliott.   Princeton, N.J, Princeton University Press, c1993. 
  xv, 375 p.  ; 24 cm.  LC CALL NUMBER: BV835 .E424 1993  ISBN: 0691086494
  :/$39.00        

Four centuries of Jewish women's spirituality : a sourcebook /  Boston :       
  Beacon Press, c1992.  xvii, 350 p. ; 27 cm.                      
  LC CALL NUMBER: BM43 .F68 1992                                            

Giles, Mary E. ed. The Feminist mystic, and other essays on women and
  spirituality /  New York, Crossroad, 1982.  vii, 159 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN:
  0824504321 (pbk.) :/$8.95       

Halligan, Fredrica R and John Shea, eds. The Fires of desire : erotic
  energies and the spiritual quest.  New York, Crossroad, 1992.  208
  p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0824511700 :/$21.95

King, Ursula. Women and spirituality : voices of protest and promise. 2nd ed. 
  University Park, Pa, Pennsylvania State University Press, c1993.
  LC CALL NUMBER: HQ1393 .K56 1993 ISBN: 027101069X (paper : alk. paper)

Lomperis, Linda & Sarah Stanbury, eds. Feminist approaches to the body in
  medieval literature / Philadelphia,  University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993
  xiv, 255 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PN682.W6 F37 1993 

Meehan-Waters, Brenda, 1941  Holy women of Russia : the lives of five Orthodox
  women offer spiritual guidance for today / Brenda Meehan.  1st ed.  {San
  Francisco}, HarperSanFrancisco, c1993.  x, 182 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER:
  BX596 .M44  1993 ISBN: 0060654724 (acid-free paper) :/$17.00 ($23.00 Can.) 

Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth.  A land flowing with milk and honey : 
  perspectives on feminist theology /  New York : Crossroad, 1986.  xii, 212
  p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT704 .M65313 1986                     

Newman, Barabara. Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the
  Feminine / Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987. xx, 289
  p. : ill. ; ISBN: 0-520-06615-4.

Ochs, Carol.  Women and spirituality / Carol Ochs.  Totowa, N.J, Rowman &
  Allanheld, 1983. 156 p. ; 22 cm. (New feminist perspectives series) LC CALL
  NUMBER: BV4527 .O25 1983  ISBN: 0847672328 :/$15.95 (est.)/0847672336 (pbk.)
  :/$7.95 (est.) 

Pardes, Ilana.  Countertraditions in the Bible : a feminist approach / 
  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.  x, 194 p. ; 22 cm.
  LC CALL NUMBER: BS575 .P27 1992                                           

Petroff, Elizabeth. Body and soul : essays on medieval women and mysticism /
  Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1994. p. cm.
  LC CALL NUMBER: BV5077.E85 P48 1994 ISBN: 0195084543 (alk. paper)         

Petroff, Elizabeth.  Medieval women's visionary literature / {edited by}
  Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff. New York, Oxford University Press, 1986.  xii,
  402 p. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BR53 .M4 1986 ISBN: 0195037111
  :/$27.50/019503712X (pbk.) /$12.95                           

Ruether, Rosemary Radford.  Women-church : theology and practice  of feminist
  liturgical communities /  1st ed.  San Francisco : Harper &   Row, c1985. 
  xii, 306 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV4527 .R83 1985                        

Torjesen, Karen Jo, 1945  When women were priests : women's leadership in the
  early church and the scandal of their subordination in the rise of 
  Christianity / Karen Jo Torjesen. 1st ed.  {San Francisco},
  HarperSanFrancisco, c1993.  p. cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BR195.W6 T67 1993 

Young, Serinity, ed. An Anthology of sacred texts by and about women. New
  York, Crossroad, 1993. xxviii, 452 p. ; 26 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL458 .A68
  1993 ISBN: 0824511433 :/$40.00                                       

Van Dyke, Annette Joy.  The search for a woman-centered spirituality /  New    
  York : New York University Press, c1992.  xviii, 227  
  LC CALL NUMBER: PN3437 .V36 1992                                          

Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra, 1949-  Encountering Mary : from La Salette to
  Medjugorje /  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.  xv, 342
  p. : ill. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT650 .Z56 1991                         

Walther, Wiebke.  Women in Islam : from medieval to modern times /
  Rev. ed.  Princeton : M. Wiener Pub., 1992.  p. cm.