Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives (Paperback)

Contents Introduction

• Shall We Gather at the River
• Rosh Chodesh Dance at the Summer Solstice
• Section I: Laying the Groundwork
• Women and Spirit: Two Nonfits in Psychology
• Psychological Implications of Women’s Spiritual Health
• Feminist Metanoia and Soul-Making
• Letter to a Friend: A Reflection on Connectedness and Naming
• Section II: Theoretical Challenges
• There Is a Balm in Gilead: Black Women and the Black Church as Agents of a Therapeutic Community
• Social and Spiritual Reconstruction of Self Within a Feminist Jewish Community
• Identity, Recovery, and Religious Imperialism: Native American Women and the New Age
• Altared States: Lesbian Altarmaking and the Transformation of Self
• Liberating the Amazon: Feminism and the Martial Arts
• Feminist Wicca: Paths to Empowerment
• Section III: Living It Out
• Women’s Spirituality and Healing in Germany
• A Search for Spirituality: A Mother and Daughter Story
• Mother Mary Ann Wright: African-American Women, Spirituality, and Social Activism
• A Class That Changes Lives
• Women’s Empowerment Through Feminist Rituals
• Re-Membering Spirituality: Use of Sacred Ritual in Psychotherapy
• Explorations of the Unrecognized Spirituality of Women’s Communion
• Reference Notes Included