TY - BOOK AU - Ruether,Rosemary Radford AU - McLaughlin,Eleanor TI - Women of spirit: female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions SN - 9780671228439 AV - BV639 .W664 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Women in Christianity KW - Women in Judaism KW - Women KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Judaism N1 - 2; 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; 2 ER -