Women of spirit : female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions / edited by Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Women's leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions : continuity and change Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin -- World, spirit and power : women in early Christian communities Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- Mothers of the church : ascetic women in the late patristic age Rosemary Ruether -- Women, power and the pursuit of holiness in medieval Christianity Eleanor McLaughlin -- Virgins in the service of Christ : the dispute over an active apostolate for women during the Counter-Reformation Ruth P. Liebowitz -- "A woman must not speak" : Quaker women in the English left wing Elaine C. Huber -- Jane Lead : the feminist mind and art of a seventeenth-century Protestant mystic Catherine F. Smith -- The feminist thrust of sectarian Christianity Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Women in the Holiness Movement : feminism in the evangelical tradition Nancy Hardesty, Lucille Sider Dayton and Donald W. Dayton -- Removing the veil : the liberated American nun Mary Owens -- "Their prodigious influence" : women, religion and reform in Antebellum America Dorothy C. Bass -- American women in ministry : a history of Protestant beginning points Virginia Lieson Brereton and Christa Ressmeyer Klein -- Women in Judaism : from the Reform Movement to contemporary Jewish religious feminism Ellen M. Umansky -- Entering the sanctuary : the struggle for priesthood in contemporary Episcopalian and Roman Catholic experience: I. The Episcopalian story Norene Carter ; II. The Roman Catholic story Rosemary Ruether.

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