Women and Religion
Some books to consider for reading groups on women's history. Sublists, depending on your particular interest:
Jewish and Christian Scriptures
- The Word According to Eve : Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own
by Cullen Murphy
- Listen to Her Voice : Women of the Hebrew Bible
by Miki Raver
- The Hebrew Goddess
by Raphael Patai, Merlin Stone (Designer)
Roman Catholic Saints
- Catherine of Siena : A Biography
by Anne B. Baldwin
- Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 : A Visionary Life
by Sabina Flanagan
- Secrets of God : Writings of Hildegard of Bingen
by Hildegard, Sabina Flanagan
- She's not canonized, but many consider her saintly:
The Long Loneliness : An Autobiography
by Dorothy Day, Daniel Berrigan (Designer)
Feminist Approaches to the History of Women and Religion
- New Woman New Earth : Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation
by Rosemary Radford Ruether
- Diving Deep and Surfacing : Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
by Carol P. Christ
- Womanspirit Rising : A Feminist Reader in Religion
by Carol P. Christ, Judith Plaskow (Editor)
- In Memory of Her : A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, et al
- Sexism and God-Talk : Toward a Feminist Theology
by Rosemary Radford Ruether
- Womanguides : Readings Toward a Feminist Theology
by Rosemary Radford Ruether(Editor)
excellent anthology of readings from ancient history to contemporary (1980s) sources
- Beyond God the Father : Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
by Mary Daly
- Rebirth of the Goddess : Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality
by Carol P. Christ
- Damned Women : Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
by Elizabeth Reis
