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Book SynopsisThis work demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This edition of the book is revised and updated in the light of 13 years of feminism, including fresh biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time.
Trade ReviewPraise 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..... -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror * The Women's Review Of Books *
Ochs's restoring of nurturance to the catalog of spiritually important activities is itself worth the whole book. -- Harvey G. Cox, Harvard University
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 *
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 *
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. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror * The Women's Review Of Books *
