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Celebrating Female Mystics

By Mirabai Starr — 2019

A modern-day theologian gets this long-overdue party started.

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An English Woman Who Becomes a Buddhist Monk | Tracks

The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Compassion and the Role of Women

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's remarks to a group of women about their role in promoting human values during their meeting at his residence in Dharamshala, HP, India on March 9, 2018.

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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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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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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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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.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

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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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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.

Wendy Reed (editor), Jennifer Horne (editor), Jan Willis (contributor)

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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.

Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (translator)

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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.

Danya Ruttenberg (editor), Susannah Heschel (foreword)

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