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| | Spirituality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many adherents of orthodox religions who consider spirituality to be an aspect of their religious experience are more likely to contrast spirituality with secular "worldliness" than with the ritual expression of their religion. | | | In recent years, spirituality in religion often carries connotations of the believer's faith being more personal, less dogmatic, more open to new ideas and myriad influences, and more pluralistic than the faiths of established religions. | | | An important distinction needs to be made between spirituality in religion and spirituality as opposed to religion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality
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| | Feminist spirituality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Feminist spirituality is a class of religious beliefs in which certain feminist ideas play an important role. | | | Some feminists find the worship of an all-loving goddess, rather than a god, to be consonant with their views. | | | Feminist spirituality may also object to images of God that they perceive as authoritarian, parental, or disciplinarian, instead emphasizing "maternal" attributes such as nurturing, acceptance, and creativity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_spirituality
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| | CTA Spirituality/Justice Reprint |
| | Feminist spirituality follows the Jesus who sought out tax collectors and zealots, women and children, Pharisees and paralytics pronounced to be in sin, and raised them all to the full height of their souls, and of his. | | | The point is that there is a new question in the spiritual life, and it is the spirituality of the spiritual life itself. | | | A spirituality that listens only to the spiritual wisdom of some, but not of all, to men but not to women, is no spirituality at all. |
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http://www.cta-usa.org/reprint1-98/chitti.html
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| | Frequently Asked Questions: Wicca and Abortion Rites |
| | Feminist spirituality promotes a belief that women are goddesses. | | | Within feminist spirituality a woman is taught that she is the goddess incarnate. | | | Repentance and the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ is not taught within feminist spirituality's post-abortion rituals. |
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http://www.forerunner.com/champion/wiccafaq.html
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| | Whole Earth Review: Feminism in Jewish spirituality |
| | Feminist reconstructions of the origins of Judaism in ancient Israel are another example of research that questions longstanding assumptions about the status of women and the nature of Jewish beliefs. | | | In contrast to models of spirituality that emphasize detachment or otherworldliness, Jewish spirituality is rooted in the interrelationship among study (in the larger sense of learning and teaching), prayer (including reflection, shared visions and communal celebration), and social work for justice. | | | Historically, the first is a separatist perspective that stems from a belief in separate and distinct female and male spiritualities. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n75/ai_12245268
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| | Catherina Halkes: Feminism and Spirituality |
| | In the second place, feminist spirituality is manifested by a positive experience of (female) sexuality and the processes connected with it. | | | Nevertheless, while they see themselves constituting a religion and a spiritual movement, their rituals are not directed towards the sacred but more towards the profane, if in a light way. | | | Christian spirituality is thus an attitude oriented towards the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ inspiring us to live in justice and love, in liberty and authenticity, and, moving out from there, in availability for God and for people. |
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http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/884033halkes.html
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| | Essays.cc - Feminist Spirituality And Goddess Religion In The United States |
| | Goddess religion and feminist spirituality have increasingly been embraced by men and women as an alternative to the patriarchy found in traditional biblical religion. | | | Beliefs of Goddess religion and Feminist Spiritualities are not absolute or definite. | | | Symbols and rituals are an essential component in goddess religion and feminist spirituality. |
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http://www.essays.cc/free_essays/f3/nyv246.shtml
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| | Feminist Spirituality |
| | Feminist Spirituality is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. | | | The Feminist Witch tended to believe that Witchcraft was a religion especially suited to women because the image of the Goddess was empowering and a strong weapon against patriarchal tyranny. | | | Several new monotheistic religions started since the early 1970s by women in the feminist community who belonged to the women’s spirituality movement and/or who had contact with Neopagan Witches. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/feminist_spirituality
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| | Concilium 2000/5 In the Power of Wisdom Editorial |
| | She describes a feminist spirituality of struggle as a boarder spirituality, a spirituality of roads, of public plazas, and of doors. | | | The spirituality of the Divine Feminine extolling the ideal of the White Lady has a long ideological tradition in biblical religions and is allpervasive even in feminist spirituality. | | | She argues that unlike traditional spirituality, feminist spirituality is not [9] expressed in warrior and fighter images or in mental pictures of war and battle but creatively uses the biblical traditions and images of Divine Wisdom-Sophia. |
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http://www.concilium.org/english/intro005.htm
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| | "Male Spirituality": A Feminist Evaluation |
| | From a Christian perspective, the idea that the spiritual realm is sexually polarized is a threat to soteriology. | | | "Spirituality," as the term is used by the men's movement, does not mean that these authors propose a certain method of prayer, stress common worship, or suggest faith-based involvement in social concerns. | | | The Church's worship and spirituality is too feminine to appeal to men; there has been an unacknowledged tilt toward "feminine values." "For many generations, the church has provided only occasional devotions and spirituality of a masculine character" (Arnold 67, 71). |
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http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/xpxx/malespir.html
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| | spiritual.ca - Spirituality |
| | Ghanaian leaders balancing their vocation with spirituality or letting their spirituality direct the country's progress or having "a divine mandate to lead the country into a state of total transformation," as stated by D... | | | Use your spirituality and the power of Your mind t... | | | Short Cut to Nirvana is a documentary about the Kumbh Mela festival that takes place near Allahabad, India every 12 years. |
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http://www.spiritual.ca/Spirituality/all/search
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| | spirituality - definition of spirituality by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | And he involuntarily compared the two: the lack of spirituality in the one and the abundance of it in the other- a spirituality he himself lacked and therefore valued most highly. | | | It is, therefore, not among our aristocracy that we must look (if at all, in Appallachia), for the spirituality of a British boudoir. | | | The state, quality, manner, or fact of being spiritual. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spirituality
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| | Feminist Spirituality of St Teresa of Avila Doing my Homework |
| | This expression of spirituality through feminism was, in many ways, started by Teresa of Avila in her writing of “The Interior Castle.” Her prayer communicated the femininity of a woman’s soul and spirituality has been expressed in many ways over time, yet before this image, women had been excluded from these divine realities. | | | Feminist Spirituality of St Teresa of Avila | | | After her near death experience, Teresa’s spirituality enervated, resulting in a lack of devotion to her prayer life. |
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http://www.doingmyhomework.com/show_essay/4833.html
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| | National Catholic Reporter: Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men. - book reviews |
| | Paradoxically, inevitable and uncertain are both apt words to describe the impact of feminism on the church and religion in the view of these deeply committed Christian feminists, Dominican Sr. | | | Rather than being a denial of the hierarchy's legitimate concern for sound teaching and unity, women's desire for an "autonomous existence" and ministerial roles commensurate with their human dignity is a protest against the excesses of patriarchy and clericalism. | | | To cite an example, Clement V's bull of 1311, Quia Contingit, had far-reaching consequences for women's leadership when it declared that the office of hospital administrator was open to lay or religious men or women rather than being an ecclesiastical benefice as clergy were then claiming. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n44_v34/ai_21230198
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| | CRONING |
| | The history, repression, and resurgence of women’s spirituality. | | | A croning ritual and crone herstory from the Feminist Spiritual Community of Portland, Maine. | | | The crone in archeology, spiritual traditions, myths; her current and future potential. |
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http://www.croning.org/pages/758470
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| | Women and Men in God's Own Image--Joan Chittister on feminist spirituality -- Beliefnet.com |
| | The spiritual meaning of the full and independent development of women is just as consequential-but different. | | | There is a spiritual reason for men to see women as discrete and effective public figures, as well. | | | Nothing would change in the world except that this time the oppressors would be women. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/145/story_14510_1.html&boardID=71338
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| | Catholic World News : Morphing Catholicism into Eco-feminism |
| | Surely some feminist scholars must know that the use of the feminine pronoun in Scriptural references to Wisdom is a matter of grammatical gender; in Hebrew and Greek, all abstract nouns are feminine. | | | Its identifying characteristics are the gradual displacement of traditional Catholic doctrine, culture and practices with a subtle but relentless infusion of feminist theology, steady but stealthy movement toward the worship of a female deity in feminist rituals, inappropriate if not obsessive focus on sex education, and fanatic environmentalism. | | | Feminist spirituality--the religion of WomenChurch--is pushing Catholicism out of the heart of the parochial curriculum in many places. |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=21156
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| | EVE ONLINE Native American Spirituality |
| | There are feminists, however, who practice Wicca, Goddess worship, paganism, etc. Although these gynocentric spiritualities share an earth-based focus with Native spirituality, we felt they certainly have a dynamic and raison d'être altogether their own. | | | A woman of color lent her support by remarking that spiritual principles are universal, and that all peoples simply overlay them with their own cultural coloring. | | | the Old Religion with its spiritual awareness of the sanctity of the living Mother Earth had been rather thoroughly destroyed; natural human feelings of connectedness with the Earth had been suppressed so that no European remnant of a spiritual worldview stood in the way of industrialization and capitalistic exploitation. |
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http://eve.enviroweb.org/perspectives/issues/native.html
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| | Belili: Cynthia Eller response -- 5-28-03 |
| | But I also think feminist spirituality is an important and interesting movement in both feminist and religious terms. | | | The reason that Living in the Lap of the Goddess read (to most people) as a sympathetic account of the feminist spirituality movement is because I’m largely sympathetic to the movement. | | | It’s possible for me to believe—and I do—that the feminist spirituality movement is engaged in some very important theological work. |
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http://www.belili.org/marija/c_eller_response.html
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| | Cults & New Religious Movements: A Bibliography |
| | Charisma and abdication: an examination of the spiritual leadership of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. | | | Prosperity and the new age movement: the efficacy of spiritual economics. | | | Mystical experience, spiritual knowledge, and a contemporary exstatic religion. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/nanninga.htm
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| | Feminist Spirituality |
| | The group sang a hymn to 'strong mother God,' whom the song praised as 'working night and day, planning all the wonders of creation, setting each equation, genius at play.' The hymn went on to designate the Deity as the old aching God' and the 'young, growing God' who is 'eager, on the move.'... | | | A Twist of Faith: How Feminst Spirituality is Changing the Church and Betraying the Women it Promised to Heal | | | This dark, seductive book about Celtic spirituality, woman power, ritual sex and other pagan practices has found a huge market among feminist seekers. |
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http://www.crossroad.to/News/feminism.html
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| | Feas2t, inc. - Home |
| | Through women's spirituality, we are creating a climate of solidarity in justice with all women. | | | We are a women's spirituality center where dialoguing with local and global women becomes the foundation for personal and social change. | | | is a women's spirituality center providing an alternative model of education where women are cherished and appreciated. |
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http://www.galaxymall.com/education/feas2tinc
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| | “WEAVING A FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY: 1) RECLAIMING THE ‘F’ WORD (A |
| | Feminism is the bedrock of my spiritual understanding. | | | A big reason for this is that feminist spirituality is not monolithic. | | | Maybe the most important word in the title of the series—“Weaving a Feminist Spirituality” is “a.” Had I substituted “the” for “a,” this whole endeavor would be a very different—not to mention grandiose—undertaking. |
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http://www.focol.org/fvuuf/Feminist_Spirituality_1.html
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| | WSSLinks: [Topic] |
| | This site is dedicated to ecofeminist and feminist spirituality "visions for the renewal of life." Features excerpts from works on spiritual ecology, ecofeminism, and feminist spirituality from many traditions and perspectives. | | | Personal reflections and meditations on goddess spirituality and the female personification of wisdom. | | | Excerpts of texts and articles relating to women's writings or feminine spirituality in Buddhism, Shinto, Taoism, and Zen. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/acrlwss/wsstheo.html
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| | Nadine Foley: Catherine of Siena's Wisdom and Spirituality |
| | When spirituality is perceived within a religious faith tradition it includes the experience of the actualization of self-transcendence by the Holy. | | | It is a unique spirituality, an unexampled fusion of intellectual and existential truth in her whole being, one that we can profitably explore through the motif of wisdom. | | | Catherine exemplifies truly what spirituality is, at a time when many of our contemporaries, many of us to be sure, exhibit fascination with spirituality, its history, the Christian mystical tradition and its contemporary expressions, particularly from a feminist perspective. |
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http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/91433foley.html
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| | Judith Laura's Bibliography: Goddess & feminist spirituality |
| | A one-woman play in which women from many different traditions and times express their feelings about spirituality and religion. | | | How sexual practices may be related to spiritual beliefs and other underlying societal assumptions. | | | Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century She Lives! |
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http://goddess.judithlaura.com/biblio.html
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| | Eller |
| | Although there were significant early conflicts between feminist and non-feminist Witches, today Witches in the United States practice a religion that has been shaped by feminism, at the same time that Eller maintains the Feminist Spirituality movement is beginning to move away from Witchcraft and create new visions and definitions. | | | She is the author of Living in the Lap of the Goddess: the Feminist Spirituality Movement in America, and The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future. | | | In her chapter, Eller presents a thorough discussion of the American history of what she calls Feminist Spirituality. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~wgriffin/DG/Eller.html
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| | Omniseek: /Lifestyle /Religion and Spirituality /Theology /Feminist |
| | Canadian journal of feminist spirituality provides a forum for women to explore the relationships between their faith traditions, feminism, spirituality, and personal experience. | | | The questions and critiques raised by feminist theology have forced a healthy rethinking of theology and practices of the church. | | | Topics include a feminist critique of the traditional theology and may cover all aspects of... |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{84450}
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| | Women's Studies I Project: Online Sources |
| | Under Shekhina's Wings: Feminist Women's Spirituality "Under Shekhina's Wings focuses on cross-cultural and interfaith women's spirituality or feminist spirituality and religion. | | | It is primarily feminist in nature and includes sections on Jewish feminist, Earth Religions or Pagan feminist, Christian feminist, Moslem feminist, and Freedom of Religion, with additional links to Bahai and mythology sources."; mainly Hebrew, offering a valuable forum (but annoying ads). | | | "a women's spirituality organization, based in Portland, Oregon, honoring the Divine Feminine and celebrating Goddess in all Her forms... |
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http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/99/maya/womstu.html
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| | Sonia Johnson is a theorist whose visionary feminism embraces the area of women's spirituality / feminist spirituality. | | | reclaim their spirituality from the deadening influence of | | | Weaving the strands of women's spirituality from different |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Same_Closet_Diff_Door/HPSISSY/suddenly.html
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| | Library F-K |
| | Gearhart and Rennie A Feminist Tarot Spirituality 389 | | | His Holiness the Dalai Lama Ethics for the New Millennium Spirituality 376 | | | Feldman, Christina The Quest of the Warrior Spirituality 386 |
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http://www.sou.edu/WRC/Library/F_K.htm
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| | ACRL WSS Core Lists in Women's Studies - Spirituality |
| | This list is limited to titles listed in BOOKS IN PRINT in January 2002, on the topics of feminist spirituality, goddess culture and worship, and new or alternative religions. | | | Please see the Religion list for books covering women in relation to established or institutional religion. | | | Walker, Barbara, THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK TO WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY and RITUAL. |
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http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/crspirit.htm
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| | feminist spirituality |
| | I belong to the Women's Spirituality Ring and the Circle of Spiritual Women; they're on my pagan-related rings page. | | | Voices of the Floodtide: Ecofeminist & Feminie Spirituality Visions of the Renewal of Life | | | Ashira's Goddess Spirituality Page, by the author of a couple goddess-spirituality books |
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http://www.madstop.org/artemis/fem.html
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| | Chittister, Joan; Earle, Nancy: Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men |
| | Heart of Flesh presents a very real look at what it means to live out a feminist spirituality in a world that glamorizes violence and legitimates domination. | | | Chittister outlines the historical realities that produced this situation and describes how patriarchal culture and spirituality maintain their hold on us. | | | Best-selling author Joan Chittister unmasks the effects of sexism on both men and women and describes a spirituality that makes healthier, happier human beings of us all. |
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http://www.forbesbookclub.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=I7TSN
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| | Definition of Feminist Theology, Feminist Spirituality and Eco-Feminism |
| | In summary, feminist religious belief systems draw heavily from Wicca paganism, Marxism and New Age, with a new twist to its marketing focused on obtaining "rights" via liberation from an oppressive patriarchy. | | | Definition of Feminist Theology, Feminist Spirituality and Eco-Feminism | | | See the excellent references [1] and [2] for an in-depth treatment of feminism applied to the Catholic religion. |
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http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/defecofem.htm
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| | Cole, Ronan and Taussig (1986) Sophia: The future of feminist spirituality |
| | Cole, Ronan and Taussig (1986) Sophia: The future of feminist spirituality | | | Women; Feminism; Wisdom; Spirituality; Religious life; Religious aspects; Biblical teaching | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=102473967&showStat=Ratings
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| | Hulda: Feminist Theology |
| | Women's Spirituality Centre at the University of Western Ontario | | | Vox Feminarum: The Canadian Journal of Feminist Spirituality | | | As above I ask you please to drop me a note with the URL-address of a report if you like me to link it! |
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http://www.dike.de/hulda/english.html
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| | HIS/WSP302--Links to relevant websites |
| | Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History | | | [General Women's Studies] [Women's History] [Women's Theology and Spirituality] | | | Feminist Theology Resources [from feminist-theology listserv, U.K.--with links to many other sites] |
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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/msthomps/302links.htm
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| | Zsuzsanna Budapest |
| | 30 January 1940) is the pen name and religious name assumed by ZsuZsanna Ernese Moukesay, an American author of Hungarian origin, who writes on on feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca. | | | The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/z/zs/zsuzsanna_budapest.html
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| | Feminist Spirituality: "Working" MatriFocus Web Magazine |
| | But many of them regretted that they hadn't spent more time with people they loved. | | | My staunch response was, "She knows what she needs." But it took me years to learn what she knew -- that full-time jobs are more than full-time, they take most of your energy as well as your time, and if you're not careful they define your life, your purpose, your relationships and yourself. | | | I was a workaholic before I was a feminist, so it seemed natural to work for ten or twelve hours, rush to a meeting or workshop, write for a couple of hours, and sleep a few hours before starting the process again. |
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http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB04/feminist-spirituality.htm
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| | Feminist Spirituality |
| | They bowed to no man, being the living remnants of the oldest culture of all-one in which men and women were equal sharers in a truly cooperative society, before the death-dealing sexual, economic, and spiritual repression of the Imperialist Phallic Society took over and began to destroy nature and human society. | | | Women are choosing to heal ourselves from the world illness of Patriarchy. | | | I am seeking that higher power that defies traditional stereotypes.... |
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http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/afreima1/femspirit.html
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