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Sex and God: Some Varieties of Women's Religious Experience book cover

1st Edition

Sex and God Some Varieties of Women's Religious Experience

Edited By Linda Hurcombe Copyright 2015
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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These stories, essays and poems by women examine the connections feminists are making between sex and God. The women write from very different perspectives, cutting across the spectrum of feminist writing about sexuality and spirituality within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Some writers, though critical, are determined to retain their radicality in the very teeth of patriarchy by remaining... Read more

Part 1. Heresies  1. Goddess: Towards a Liturgy for Survival Linda Hurcombe  2. The Women Dance Naked in Jail Starhawk  3. Inner Landscape: Outer Landscape Heather Formaini  4. Esprit de Corps Aileen La Tourette  5. When They Burned Us Lauren Liebling  6. Water Women Alla Bozarth-Campbell  Part 2. First Person Plural  7.Bad Weather Bryony Dahl  8. Friends in Deed Mary E. Hunt  9. A Time to refrain from Embracing Polly Blue  10. The Lion in the Marble: Choosing Celibacy as a Nun Hannah Ward, CSF  Part 3. Body Theology  11. Performance Polly Blue  12. A Womb-Centred Life Una Kroll  13. Nothing is Sacred, All is Profane: Lesbian Identity and Religious Purpose Elaine Willis  14. Passionate Prayer: Masochistic Images in Women’s Experience Sara Maitland  15. Paragory Linda Hurcombe  Part 4. The Language of Feeling  16. Inner Anatomy of a Birth Léonie Caldecott  17. on the edge (1985) Susan Griffin  18. Lammas Babe: Ten Days of Healing Jenjoy Silverbirch Strongbody Clevermind (Linda Hurcombe and Polly Blue, eds)  19. Let Your Right Brain Know Linda Hurcombe  Part 5. Feminist Theology  20. from Casting a New Circle Mykel Johnson  21. A Jealous God? Towards a Feminist Model of Monogamy Susan Dowell  22. Asceticism and Feminism: Strange Bedmates? Rosemary Radford Ruether  23. Sexual Justice and the ‘Righteousness of God’ Sheila Briggs  24. Prayer for Continuation Susan Griffin

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Linda Hurcombe

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