White Fire

by Drucker, Malka

• ISBN13: 9781893361645
• ISBN10: 1893361640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

Revealed through Malka Drucker's insightful interviews and Gay Block's compelling photographic portraits, the women represent both diversity and sisterhood. Pioneering women such as Bishop Leontine Kelly are profiled along with Yoruba priestess and writer Luisa Teish, media star Iyanla Vanzant, meditation teacher Slyvia Boorsetin, best-selling author Marianne Williamson, ashram leader Ma Jaya, theologian Elaine Pagels, anthropologist Jean Jouston, and many others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Birth	1	(60)
The Right Reverend Leontine Kelly	5	(8)
Rabbi Laura Geller	13	(12)
The Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook	25	(10)
Dr. Nahid Angha	35	(8)
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis	43	(10)
The Reverend Dr. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan	53	(8)
Exile	61	(58)
Luisah Teish	65	(10)
The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress	75	(8)
Sylvia Boorstein	83	(10)
Dr. Elaine Pagels	93	(8)
Dr. Beatrice Bruteau	101	(10)
Starhawk	111	(8)
Law	119	(58)
The Reverend Catherine Campbell and Deacon Bettye Reynolds	123	(8)
Reynelda James	131	(6)
Maryanne Lacy	137	(8)
Mother Ammachi	145	(8)
Connie Biwer Yaqub	153	(8)
Joan Halifax Roshi	161	(8)
Sister Jose Hobday	169	(8)
Wilderness	177	(40)
The Reverend Diane Winley	181	(6)
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati	187	(10)
Debbie Friedman	197	(6)
The Reverend Sandy Gess	203	(8)
Janice Mirikitani	211	(6)
Harvest	217	(50)
Iyanla Vanzant	221	(10)
The Reverend Helen Cohen and the Reverend Rebecca Cohen	231	(8)
Marianne Williamson	239	(10)
The Reverend Della Reese	249	(8)
Jean Houston	257	(10)
About the Photographs	267	(2)
Select Bibliography of Women Spiritual Leaders	269	(6)
Further Reading	275	(12)
About SkyLight Paths	287