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An Interview with Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo

By Craig Kaufman — 2010

“The head nun just started crying. Of course I like to make offerings and to honor. But in 20 years of doing this … it’s all been males. This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to honor a female.” - Head nun, Drupka nunnery about Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman

Born with Wings is a powerful, moving, and eye-opening account of Daisy Khan’s inspiring journey—of her self-actualization and her success in opening doors for other Muslim women and building bridges between cultures. It powerfully demonstrates what one woman can do—with faith, love, and resilience.

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Daisy Khan
2018
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Opening the Lotus: A Woman’s Guide to Buddhism

Part primer, part personal history, part guide to spiritual practice, this book opens the door to an understanding of Buddhist spirituality, which engages more and more Westerners as the millennium approaches.

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Sandy Boucher
1998
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The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life

A balanced portrayal of the Quran and its place in historic and contemporary Muslim society, this updated edition features new sections on the Quran and its relationship to democracy, science, human rights, and the role of women, and contains expanded sections on the Quran in the life cycle of...

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Ingrid Mattson
2013
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Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance

Why do so many women of faith have such a strong aversion to feminism? And why do so many feminists have an ardent mistrust of religion? These questions are at the heart of Helen LaKelly Hunt's illuminating look at the alliance between spiritual conviction and social action.

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Helen LaKelly Hunt
2004
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Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics

Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals, Dreaming the Dark has helped many thousands of women use magic, spirituality, and community to bring about political and social change.

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Starhawk
1997
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All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality

All Out of Faith gives voice to southern women writers who represent a broad spectrum of faiths, Catholic to Baptist, Jewish to Buddhist, and points in between. These essays and stories reveal that southern culture has always reserved a special place for strong women of passion.

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Wendy Reed (editor), Jennifer Horne (editor), Jan Willis (contributor)
2007
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Hildegard of Bingen: Essential Writings and Chants of a Christian Mystic

Hildegard of Bingen―visionary, abbess, composer, dramatist, poet and healer―was the brilliant and passionate precursor of many of the great women mystics of the Middle Ages.

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Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (translator)
2016
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Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism

Thanks in large part to the struggles of their activist foremothers, today’s young Jewish women have a dizzying array of spiritual options.

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Danya Ruttenberg (editor), Susannah Heschel (foreword)
2001
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A Woman’s Journey to God

Asking why Western women are dropping out of traditional religion in record numbers, the best-selling author of A Woman’s Book of Life probes the disconnect between patriarchal religion and women’s experience and shows women the path to spiritual healing.

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Joan Borysenko
1999
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