Women and Spirituality / Edition 2

by Carol Ochs

Overview

Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism, including new biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Prodding readers to pay attention to their own experiences, Ochs challenges traditional religious concepts such as solitary struggle, otherworldliness, and the spiritual journey to a distant goal, and shows how women's spirituality focuses on relationships with others, commitment to this world, and engagement with the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847683291
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/19/1996
Series:	New Feminist Perspectives
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Carol Ochs is the author of Behind the Sex of God, An Ascent to Joy, The Noah Paradox, and Song of the Self. She teaches spirituality at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Editorial Reviews

Ochs's restoring of nurturance to the catalog of spiritually important activities is itself worth the whole book.

Harvey G. Cox

Ochs offers an engaging and at times inspiring vision of the possibilities for creating a women's spirituality which caters for the needs of today.

Women's Philosophy Review - Tina Beattie

Balanced, polished, and creative. .. Women and Spirituality is a much more subtle and well-crafted book than many that have been written on this subject.

Encounter - Susan J. White

Praise for the first edition: Ochs has made a real contribution to feminist cosmology and to our continuing debate on what it means, as a woman,. .. to live a rich human life.....

The Women's Review Of Books - Jean Bethke Elshtain

Balanced, polished, and creative . . . Women and Spirituality is a much more subtle and well-crafted book than many that have been written on this subject.
— Susan J. White

Encounter

Ochs offers an engaging and at times inspiring vision of the possibilities for creating a women's spirituality which caters for the needs of today.
— Tina Beattie, University of Bristol

Women's Philosophy Review

Ochs has made a real contribution to feminist cosmology and to our continuing debate on what it means, as a woman, . . . to live a rich human life.
— Jean Bethke Elshtain

The Women's Review of Books