Women of spirit : female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions /
edited by Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin.
- New York : Simon and Schuster, (c)1979.
- 400 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Women's leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions : continuity and change World, spirit and power : women in early Christian communities Mothers of the church : ascetic women in the late patristic age Women, power and the pursuit of holiness in medieval Christianity Virgins in the service of Christ : the dispute over an active apostolate for women during the Counter-Reformation Jane Lead : the feminist mind and art of a seventeenth-century Protestant mystic The feminist thrust of sectarian Christianity Women in the Holiness Movement : feminism in the evangelical tradition Removing the veil : the liberated American nun American women in ministry : a history of Protestant beginning points Women in Judaism : from the Reform Movement to contemporary Jewish religious feminism Entering the sanctuary : the struggle for priesthood in contemporary Episcopalian and Roman Catholic experience: I. The Episcopalian story Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- Rosemary Ruether -- Eleanor McLaughlin -- Ruth P. Liebowitz -- "A woman must not speak" : Quaker women in the English left wing Elaine C. Huber -- Catherine F. Smith -- Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Nancy Hardesty, Lucille Sider Dayton and Donald W. Dayton -- Mary Owens -- "Their prodigious influence" : women, religion and reform in Antebellum America Dorothy C. Bass -- Virginia Lieson Brereton and Christa Ressmeyer Klein -- Ellen M. Umansky -- Norene Carter ; II. The Roman Catholic story Rosemary Ruether.
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Women in Christianity. Women in Judaism. Women--Religious aspects--Christianity. Women--Religious aspects--Judaism.