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Women and Spirituality
Carol Ochs
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Description for Women and Spirituality
Hardback. This work demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This edition of the book is revised and updated in the light of 13 years of feminism, including fresh biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Series: New Feminist Perspectives. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Feminist Perspectives
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847683291
SKU
V9780847683291
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99-15
About Carol Ochs
Carol Ochs is the author of Behind the Sex of God, An Ascent to Joy, The Noah Paradox, and Song of the Self. She teaches spirituality at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Reviews for Women and Spirituality
Praise for the first edition: Ochs has made a real contribution to feminist cosmology and to our continuing debate on what it means, as a woman, . . . to live a rich human life.....
Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror
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