Women and Spirituality

by Ochs, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780847683307
• ISBN10: 0847683303
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-05
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism, including new biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Prodding readers to pay attention to their own experiences, Ochs challenges traditional religious concepts such as solitary struggle, otherworldliness, and the spiritual journey to a distant goal, and shows how women's spirituality focuses on relationships with others, commitment to this world, and engagement with the present.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue	1	(4)
1 Ecstasy, Religion, and Spirituality	5	(10)
2 The Context of Spirituality	15	(12)
3 Women and Spirituality	27	(18)
4 A Spirituality of This World	45	(12)
5 Circumstance, Conflict, Suffering, and Guilt	57	(14)
6 Death	71	(18)
7 Love, Unity, Joy, Contribution, and Birth	89	(14)
8 Beyond Solitude to Compassion	103	(10)
9 The Spiritual Walk	113	(16)
10 Time	129	(16)
11 A New Sprituality	145	(14)
Notes	159	(8)
Works Cited	167	(6)
Index	173	(6)
About the Author	179