Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise

Description

Taking a critical look at feminism and exploring its explicit and implicit spiritual dimensions, this revised and updated new edition of Women and Spirituality engages in a reflective dialogue with contemporary women's voices. It asks to what extent patriarchal oppression and androcentric thinking are inherent not only in Christianity but in all religious beliefs, practices and institutions. This is the only book which provides a comprehensive survey of current discussions in feminist theology and spirituality and offers a wide-ranging account of women and world religions and raising thought-provoking questions about the spiritual dimensions of human life.

URSULA KING is Professor and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. She has published several books and many articles on women, world religions and spirituality. Her previous publications include an edited volume of Women in the World Religions, Past and Present and The Spirit of One Earth: Reflections on Teilhard de Chardin and Global Spirituality. She is currently editing books on Feminist Theology from the Third World and on New Perspectives on Religion and Gender.