Spirit, Nature and Community

By Diogenes Allen & Eric O. Springsted
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, Simone Weil Studies

This book covers the main aspects of Simone Weil's thought, drawing on her life where it is relevant for understanding her ideas. It is the fruit of many years engagement with scholars and scholarship ...

Today's Woman in World Religions

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, ...

Religion and Women

Edited by Arvind Sharma
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality
Series: SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship

This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Baha'i faiths for the first time in a single volume, and evolves a conceptual framework ...

The Making of a Mystic

By Francis L. Gross Jr.
With Toni Perior Gross
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality

This is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and ...

Women, Religion, and Social Change

Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Ellison Banks Findly
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality

Women, Religion and Social Change focuses attention on the way in which women from a number of religious traditions have been able to bring about change and the manner in which religions have either facilitated ...