Title
Wise women : over two thousand years of spiritual writing by women / edited by Susan Cahill.
ISBN
0393039463
9780393039467
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 395 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BL458 .W545 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
200/.82
Summary
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 shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom; and it inspires artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of poetry, essays, prayers, letters, memoirs, stories, and theologies by wise women is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Testimonies of ancient cultures
The Near East
North American Indian
Judaism
Buddhism
Greece
Christianity
The Middle Ages
The early modern period: the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
Voices of faith, imagination, and protest
New insights: the goods of the spirit according to shamans, scholars, witches, and theologians.
