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Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

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By Elizabeth Lesser — 2020

What if women had been the storytellers? Cassandra Speaks is a synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. All people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

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A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

Written by the first and only layperson to receive full dharma transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage, A Bigger Sky explores what it means to traverse the gaps of a Buddhism created by and for men, navigate the seemingly contradictory domains of secular and spiritual life, and walk a...

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Pamela Weiss
2020
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Feminist Theory And Christian Theology

This long-awaited text charts clearly and comprehensively the enormously important area of feminist theory—and brings it into fruitful conversation with Christian theology.

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Serene Jones
2024
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Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (Humanism in Practice)

Feminism and atheism are "dirty words" that Americans across the political spectrum love to debate—and hate. Throw them into a blender and you have a toxic brew that supposedly defies decency, respectability, and Americana.

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Sikivu Hutchinson
2020
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Women of Wisdom

Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics.

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Tsultrim Allione, Chögyam Trungpa (foreword)
2000
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Dear Joan Chittister: Conversations with Women in the Church

Where can we find communities who accept us fully for who we are? Where do we find the courage to walk forward, often alone, and proclaim the truth? It’s an experience many women share: they’re well-educated, talented, and passionate about discipleship and ministry, but they serve a church that...

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Jessie Bazan (editor)
2019
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Womanstrength: Modern Church, Modern Women

This book contains 16 essays on women, women's role in the Church, social ministry, justice and peace, spirituality, and activism.

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Joan Chittister
1996
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The Heart of the Lotus: A Buddhist Perspective on Women’s Inner and Outer Liberation

Women have to read patriarchal teachings critically "with the eyes of a woman". The Heart of the Lotus presents central teachings of Buddhism and describes traps we fall into, if we do not consider our cultural background and our biological sex and social gender.

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Sylvia Wetzel, Jane Anhold (translator)
2015
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A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of amina wadud

amina wadud, scholar and activist, is a vital figure in Islamic studies, Qur’anic hermeneutics, and gender studies, fields to which she has made a lasting contribution.

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Amina Wadud, Juliane Hammer (editor), Kecia Ali (editor), Laury Silvers (editor)
2020
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Inside the Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

In this engaging study, Dr. amina wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements.

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amina wadud
2006
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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Sherin Khankan
2020
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