SECTION ONE: HAVING A WOMAN'S BODY
These book lists are excerpted from Keys to the Open Gate.Sexuality
Margo Anand, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, Jeremy P. Tarcher
Jolan Chang, The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstacy, Dutton
Mantak Chia and Maneewan Chia, Healing Love Through the Tao: Cultivating Sexual Energy, Healing Tao Books, 1987.
Gedun Chopel, Tibetan Arts of Love, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Don, 1992.
Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy, Destiny Books, 1979.
John Mumford, Ecstacy Through Tantra, Llewellyn, 1993.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Tantra, Spirituality & Sex, Rajneesh Foundation International, 1977.
SECTION TWO: PATRIARCHY
Judaism
Jewish women are actively trying to reclaim their religious roots, attempting to reshape Jewish memory and history so that the female and the feminine will be included in the liturgies, blessings, and midrash (storytelling). In addition, there are several different versions of a feminist Haggadah in circulation, and a large number of “moon groups”: women who celebrate the new-moon holiday Rosh Hodesh, as a female ritual. Good resources are:
Pinina Adleman, Miriam’s Well: Rituals for Jewish Women Around the Year, Biblio Press, 1986.
Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Knopf, 1993.
Evelyn Torten Beck, ed., Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, The Crossing Press, 1984.
Ellen Bernstein, Let the Earth Teach You Torah: A Guide to Teaching Jewish Ecological Wisdom, Shomrei Adamah, 1992.
Rachel Biale, Women and Jewish Law: An Exploration of Women’s Issues In Halakhic Sources, Schocken Books, 1984.
Phyllis Bird, “Images of Women in the Old Testament,” in Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, edited by Rosemary Reuther, Simon and Schuster, 1974.
Esther Broner, “Honor and Ceremony in Women’s Rituals,” in The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement, edited by Charlene Spretnak, Doubleday, Anchor Press, 1982.
Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith, Yours in Struqqle, Long Haul Press, 1984.
Marcia Falk, “Notes on Composing New Blessings,” in Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Reconstruction of Christian Origins, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1983.
Rela M. Geffen, ed., Celebration & Renewal: Rites of Passage in Judaism, Jewish Publication Society, 1993.
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, “Prophecy and Spirituality: The Voice of Prophet Woman,” in The Spiral Path: Explorations in Women's Spirituality, edited by Theresa King, Yes International Publishers, 1992.
Lesley Hazelton, Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths, Simon and Schuster, 1977.
Susannah Heschel, ed., On Being a Jewish Feminist, Schocken Books, 1983.
Naomi Janowitz and Maggie Wenig, “Sabbath Prayers for Women,” in Womanspirit Rising, edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, Harper & Row, 1979.
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz, eds., The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology, Beacon Press, 1989.
Elizabeth Koltun, ed., The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives, Schocken Books, 1976.
Lilith (magazine), Lilith Publications, 250 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, New York, KTAV Publishing House, 1967.
Alix Pirani, The Absent Mother: Restoring the Goddess to Judaism and Christianity, Mandala, 1991.
Judith Plaskow, “Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective,” in Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, HarperSan Francisco, 1989.
Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai, HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Susan Weidman Schneider, Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today, Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Tikkun (magazine), 5100 Leona Street, Oakland, CA 94619-3022.
Judith Romney Wegner, Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in Mishnah, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Ellen M. Umansky, “Creating a Jewish Feminist Theology: Possibilities and Problems,” Anima 10, Spring, 1984.
Buddhism:
There’s a wealth of material available today concerning women and Buddhism. The introduction to Tsultrim Allione’s Women of Wisdom, Routledge 8c Kegan Paul, 1982, provides a brilliant, comprehensive analysis of the feminine in Buddhist practice which is followed by biographical sketches of female Tibetan practitioners. Sandy Boucher, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism, Harper 8c Row, 1988, gives a very personal account of many of the women—students as well as teachers—involved in Buddhism in the 1970s and 1980s. She also includes a responsible treatment on the fraught subject of male teachers’ sexual involvement with their students. Other books well worth dipping into include:
Leonore Friedman, Meetings with Remarkable Women, Shambhala, 1987. China Galland, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, Viking, 1990.
Rita Gross, Buddhism Beyond Patriarchy, SUNY, 1992.
Deborah Hopkinson, Michele Hill, and Eileen Kiera, eds., Not Mixing Up Buddhism: Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice, White Pine Press,
1986.
Kahawal Journal of Women and Zen, Diamond Sangha, 2119 Kaloa Way, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Joanna Macy, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, New Society Publishers, 1983.
NIBWA (Newsletter on International Buddhist Women’s Activities), c/o Dr. Chatsumam Kabilsingh, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thamasat University, Bangkok 10200, Thailand.
Diana Y. Paul, Women In Buddhism, Asian Humanities Press, 1979.
Ellen Sidor, ed., A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism, Primary Point Press, Kwan Um Zen School, 1987.
Sakyadhita Newsletter, 400 Hobron Lane, #2615, Honolulu, HI 96815. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha, Snow Lion,
1988. Janice Willis, ed., Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet, Snow Lion, 1989.
Islam:
Amutullah Armstrong, And the Sky is Not the Limit, Pir, 1993.
Azizah al-Hibri, ed., Women and Islam, Pergamon, 1982.
Marianne Alireza, At the Drop of A Veil, Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
Lois Beck and N. Kiddie, eds., Women in the Muslim World, Harvard University Press, 1978.
“Depending on whether we feel in control of our changes or at the mercy of them, change may excite or frighten us. ” —Dorothy Riddle
Nawal el-Saadawi, The Hidden Face of Eve: Women In the Arab World, Zed Press, 1980.
Elizabeth Femea and Basima Qattan Bezirgan, eds., Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak, University of Texas Press, 1977.
Yvonne Yazbek Haddad, Women, Religion and Social Change, SUNY, 1985.
Susan Haneef, What Everyone Should Know About Islam and Muslim, Kazi Publishing, 1978.
Maryam Jameelah, Islam and Muslim Woman Today, Muhammad Yusuf Khan, 1976.
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Word, Pir, 1993.
Fatima Memissi, Beyond the Veil, John Wiley & Sons, 1975.
Mona Mikhail, Images of Arab Women: Fact and Fiction, Three Continents Press, 1979.
Naila Minai, Women In Islam, Seaview, 1981.
Sachiko Murata, The Tao of Islam, SUNY, 1992.
Kaukab Siddique, The Struggle of Muslim Women, American Society for Education & Religion, Inc., 1986.
_. Toward Understanding the Basics of Islam, Thinker’s Library, 1986.
Rafi ullah Shehab, Rights of Women in Islamic Sha riah, Indus Publishing House,1986.
Christianity
Ever since the publication of Mary Daly’s Beyond God the Father in 1973, there has been an explosion of books involving women and Christianity. Just to read the subtitles provides an education:
K. Armstrong, A History of God, Knopf, 1993.
C. W. Atkinson, C. H. Buchanan, and M. R. Miles, eds., Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality, Beacon,
1987.
L. Boff, The Maternal Face of God: The Feminine and its Religious Expressions, Harper & Row, 1987.
S. Cady, M. Ronan, and H. Taussig, Sophia: The Future of Feminist Spirituality, Harper & Row, 1986.
D. L. Carmody, Feminism and Christianity: A Two Way Reflection, Abingdon, 1982.
_. Seizing the Apple: A Feminist Spirituality of Personal Growth,
The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984.
A. E. Carr, Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience, Harper & Row, 1988.
Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, eds., Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Harper & Row, 1979.
E. A. Clark and H. Richardson, eds., Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought, Harper & Row, 1977.
A. Y. Collins, Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship, Scholars,
1985.
J. W. Conn, Women’s Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development, Paulist, 1986.
P. M. Cooey, Sharon Farmer, and M. Ross, eds., Embodied Love: Sensuality and Relationship as Feminist Values, Harper & Row, 1987.
Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father, Beacon, 1973.
_, Gyn/Ecology, Beacon, 1978.
_, Pure Lust, Beacon, 1984.
_, The Church and the Second Sex, Beacon, 1985.
S. Dowell and L. Hurcombe, Dispossessed Daughters of Eve: Faith and
Feminism, SPCK, 1987.
N. A. Falk, and Rita Gross, eds., Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives, Wadsworth, 1989.
Elisabeth S. Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984. K. Fischer, Women at the Well: Feminist Perspectives on Spiritual Direction, Paulist, 1989.
C. Galland, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, Viking, 1990.
M. E. Giles, ed., The Feminist Mystic: And Other Essays on Women and Spirituality, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1987.
Rita Gross, ed., Beyond Androcentrism: New Essays on Women and Religion, Scholars, 1977.
T. Hopko, ed., Women and the Priesthood, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press,
1983.
L. Hurcombe, ed., Sex and God: Some Varieties of Women’s Religious Experience, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
T. King, The Spiral Path, Yes International Publishers, 1992.
U. King, Women andSpirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise, Macmillan, 1989.
G. Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford University Press, 1986. Ann Loades, ed., Feminist Theology: A Reader, SPCK, 1990.
S. McFague, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, SCM, 1987.
S. Maitland, A Map of the New Country: Women and Christianity, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
V. R. Mollenkott, ed., Women of Faith in Dialogue, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1988.
E. Moltmann-Wendel, The Women Around Jesus, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982.
Nelle Morton, The Journey Is Home, Beacon, 1985.
Cynthia Ochs, Women and Spirituality, Rowman & Allanheld, 1983.
C. Osiek, Beyond Anger: On Being a Feminist in the Church, Paulist Press, 1986.
Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, Random House, 1989.
Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, eds., Reweaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, Harper & Row, 1989.
L. N. Rhodes, Co-Creating: A Feminist Vision of Ministry, Westminster ,1987.
C. S. Robb, ed., Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics, Beacon, 1985.
R. R. Ruether, Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Tradition, Simon and Schuster, 1974.
_, Sexism and God-Talk: Towards a Feminist Theology, Beacon,
1984.
R. R. Ruether and R. S. Keller, eds., Women and Religion in America, 3 vols., Harper & Row, 1981.
L. M. Russell, Household of Freedom: Authority in Feminist Theology, Westminster, 1987.
C. Smith, Weaving the Sermon: Preaching in a Feminist Perspective, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.
M. J. Weaver, New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority, Harper & Row, 1986.
J. L. Weidman, Women Ministers, Harper & Row, 1985.
M. T. Winter, The Gospel According to Mary, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993.
SECTION THREE THE GODDESS ENVISIONED:
Goddess
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today, Beacon, 1986.
Hallie Iglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess: Art, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine, Wingbow, 1990.
Mariam Baker, Woman as Divine: Tales of the Goddess, Crescent Heart,
1982.
Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Viking Arkana, 1991.
Pamela Berger, The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint, Beacon, 1985.
Nancy Blair, Amulets of the Goddess: Oracle of Ancient Wisdom (book plus 27 amulets in pouch), Wingbow, 1993.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women, Harper & Row, 1984.
Janine Canan, ed., She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets, The Crossing Press, 1989.
Anne Carson, Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine: An Annotated Bibliography, The Crossing Press, 1986.
Carol P. Christ, Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess, Harper & Row, 1987.
Mary Condren, The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland, Harper & Row, 1989.
Menrad Craighead, The Mother Songs: Images of God the Mother, Mahwah,
1986.
Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Beacon, 1978.
Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Listening to our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom, Beacon, 1983.
Miriam Robbins Dexter, Whence the Goddess: A Source Book, Pergamon, 1990.
Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, eds., Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, Sierra Club Books, 1990.
Christine Downing, The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1981.
Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Harper & Row, 1987.
Cynthia Eller, Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993.
Nancy Falk and Rita Gross, Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures, Harper & Row, 1980.
Janet and Stewart Farrar, The Witches’ Goddess, Phoenix, 1987.
Matthew Fox, Original Blessings: A Primer in Creation Spirituality, Bear & Co., 1983.
Elinor Gadon, The Once and Future Goddess, Harper & Row, 1989.
China Galland, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, Viking,1990.
Jo Garcia and Sara Maitland, Walking on the Water: Women Talk about Spirituality, Virago, 1983.
Demetra George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess, HarperCollins, 1992.
Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess, Harpers, 1991.
_. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images,
University of California Press, 1982.
_. The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols
of Western Civilization, Aired van der Marck Editions, 1988.
Judith Gleason, Oya: In Praise of the Goddess, Shambhala, 1987.
Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.
Elizabeth Dodson Gray, Sacred Dimensions of Women’s Experience, Roundtable, 1988.
Nor Hall, The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine, Harper & Row, 1980.
Hallie Iglehart, Womanspirit: A Guide to Women’s Wisdom, Harper & Row,1983.
Buffie Johnson, Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals, Harper & Row, 1988.
Susan Lee and Susanah Libana, You Said, What Is This For, This Interest in Goddess, Prehistoric Religions? Plain View, 1985.
Helen Luke, Woman, Earth and Spirit: The Feminine in Symbol and Myth, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1985.
Caitlin Matthews, Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom: The Divine Feminine from Black Goddess to World-Soul, HarperCollins, 1991.
Sheila Moon, Changing Woman and Her Sisters, Guild for Psychological Studies, 1985.
Shirley Nicholson, ed., The Goddess Re Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today, Theosophical Publishing House, 1989.
Vicki Noble, Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art and Tarot, Harper & Row, 1983.
_. Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World: The New
Female Shaman, HarperCollins, 1991.
Carol Ochs, Women and Spirituality, Rowman & Allanheld, 1983.
Judith Ochshorn, The Female Experience and the Nature of the Divine, University of Indiana Press, 1981.
Mayumi Oda, Goddesses, Volcano, 1988.
Carl Olsen, ed., The Book of Goddess Past and Present, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1985.
Gloria Orenstein, The Re/lowering of the Goddess, Pergamon, 1990.
Carol Orlock, The Goddess Letters: The Myth of Demeter and Persephone Retold, St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Ktav, 1967.
Judith Plant, ed., Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, New Society Publishers, 1989.
Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, eds., Weaving the Visions: Hew Patterns In Feminist Spirituality, Harper & Row, 1989.
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk: Towards a Feminist Theology, Beacon, 1983.
_. Womanguides: Readings Towards a Feminist Theology, Beacon,1985.
Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, The Wise Wound: Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation, Bantam, 1990.
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, Harper & Row, 1987.
Charlene Spretnak, Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths, Beacon, 1981.
_. States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern
Age, HarperCollins, 1991.
Charlene Spretnak, ed., The Politics of Women’s Spirituality, Anchor, 1982.
Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics, Beacon, 1982.
_. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great
Goddess, Harper & Row, 1989 (1979).
_. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Magic,
Harper & Row, 1987.
Diane Stein, The Women’s Spirituality Book, Llewellyn, 1987.
Merlin Stone, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, Beacon, 1979.
_. When God Was A Woman, Dial, 1976.
Barbara Walker, The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Harper & Row, 1988.
_. The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper & Row, 1983.
Edward C. Whitmont, Return of the Goddess, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982.
Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, Harper & Row, 1983.
Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravaged Bride, Inner City Books, 1985.
_. The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, Inner City Books, 1985.
Patrice Wynne, The Womanspirit Sourcebook, Harper & Row, 1988.
Connie Zweig, ed., To Be A Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.Native/Shamanic
Shamanic wisdom relies on felt experience and oral teachings, but a great deal may be gleaned from the many books now available.
Sedonia Cahill & Joshua Halpern, Ceremonial Circle: Practice, Ritual, and Renewal for Personal and Community Healing, HarperCollins, 1992.
Gary Doore, In Shaman’s Path: Healing, Personal Growth and Empowerment, Shambhala, 1988.
Stephen Foster with Meredith Little, The Book of the Vision Quest, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Douchan Gersi, Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1991.
Joan Halifax, Shaman: The Wounded Healer, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982.
Joan Halifax, ed., Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives, Dutton, 1979.
Michael Hart, The Way of the Shaman, Harper & Row, 1990.
Ruth-Inge Heinze, Shamans of the 20th Century1 Irvington, 1990.
Shirley Nicholson, ed., Shamanism, Quest, 1987.
Vicki Noble, Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World: The New Female Shamanismx HarperCollins, 1991.
Vicki Noble, ed., Snake Power: A Journal of Contemporary Female Shamanism, 5856 College Avenue #138, Oakland, CA 94618.
Gini Graham Scott, Secrets of the Shaman Warrior, New Falcon, 1991.
Roger Walsh, Spirit of Shamanism, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.
Of related interest is a book by a student of Carlos Castaneda’s nagual, Don Juan, describing her initiation: Taisha Abelar’s The Sorcerer’s Crossing: A Woman’s Journey, Penguin Arkana, 1992.
Workshops & Foundations:
Dance of the Deer Foundation/Center for Shamanic Studies, PO Box 699, Soquel, CA 95073, (408) 475-9560.
Eagle Song Wilderness Camps, PO Box 121, Ovando, MT 59854. Brooke Medicine Eagle leads workshops here at Blacktail Ranch in Montana.
The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Box 670, Belden Station, Norwalk, CT 06852; (203) 454-2825. Founded by Michael Hamer.
Shaman’s Drum, PO Box 430, Willits, CA 95490, (707) 459-0486. Contains calendar of workshops and events and resource directory for those involved in shamanism.
Snake Power: A Journal of Contemporary Female Shamanism, 5856 College Avenue #138
“Nature and Spirituality: Time of the New Dawning” in The Spiral Path
Books on Native American spirituality have surged into print as the ecology movement has grown. Recently many fine books by or about women in that tradition have begun to appear. These include:
Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Beacon, 1986.
_, Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook, Beacon, 1991.
Lynn Andrews, Medicine Woman, Harper&Row, 1981. (Although Andrews
states that her work is not connected with a specific Native American tradition, she incorporates their basic view of nature into her writing.)
Beth Brant, ed., A Gathering of Spirit, Sinister Wisdom Books, 1984.
Ann Cameron, Daughters of Copper Woman, Press Gang, 1981.
Natalie Curtis, ed., The Indian’s Book: Songs and Legends of the American Indians, Dover, 1950.
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, Lakota Woman, Harper Perennial, 1991.
Brooke Medicine Eagle, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Ballentine, 1991. (Audio tapes available from New Dimension Tapes, PO Box 410510, San Francisco, CA 94141, (415) 563-8899.)
Nancy Falk and Rita Gross, eds., Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures, Harper & Row, 1980.
Sheila Moon, Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Feminine Aspects of Selves and Deities, Guild for Psychological Studies, 1984.
G. M. Mullet, Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians, University of Arizona Press, 1979.
Twylah Nitsch, Entering into the Silence, Seneca Indian Historical Society, 1976
_, Language of the Trees, Seneca Indian Historical Society, 1982.
_, Language of the Stones, Seneca Indian Historical Society, 1983.
Steve Wall, Wisdom’s Daughter: Conversations with Women Elders of Na tive America, HarperCollins, 1993.
Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of Our Ancestors, Shambhala, 1987.
Wiccan
Although information about witchcraft was once forced to be hidden, this is hardly the case today, for books abound. Many of the ones listed below contain bibliographies themselves. Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance, republished and updated in a tenth-year anniversary edition, lists several pages of sources. Other books include:
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moonl Beacon, 1986.
Pamela Berger, The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint± Beacon, 1985.
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
Z. Budapest, Grandmother Moon: Lunar Magic in OurLives1 HarperCollins, 1991.
_. The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries, 2 vols., Wingbow, 1986, rev. ed.
Mary Condren, The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland, Harper & Row, 1989.
Janet and Steward Farrar, Eight Sabbats for Witches, Robert Hale, 1981.
_. The Witches’ Goddess, Phoenix, 1987.
Anne Llewellyn, Witchcraze: A New History of European Witch Hunts, HarperCollins, 1994.
Diane Mariechild with Shuli Goodman, The Inner Dance: A Guide to Spiritual and Psychological Unfolding, The Crossing Press, 1987.
Ashlen O'Garea, The Family Wicca Book, Llewelyn, 1993.
Ellen Cannon Reed, The Witches’ Quabala: The Goddess and the Tree, Llewellyn, 1986.
Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark Magic, Sex and Politics, Beacon, 1982.
_. The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the
Great Goddess, tenth-anniversary edition, HarperCollins, 1989.
_. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Magic,
Harper & Row, 1987.
Diane Stein, The Women’s Spirituality Book, Llewellyn, 1987.
LuisahTeish, Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Harper & Row, 1985.
Doreen Valiente, Natural Magic, Phoenix, 1978, 1986.
_. Witchcraft for Tomorrow, Phoenix, 1978, 1987.
Barbara Walker, Women’s Rituals: A Sourcebook, Harper & Row, 1990.
Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic: Occult Self Help, Phoenix, 1984.
_. Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows, Phoenix, 1986.
COG, Covenant of the Goddess, may be contacted at PO Box 1226, Berkeley, CA, 94704.
Hinduism:
Arthur Avalon, Hymns to the Goddess, Lotus Light, 1963.
_, Shakti and Shakta, Dover, 1978.
_, Hymns to Kali, Lotus Light, 1965.
C. Mackenzie Brown, God as Mother: A Feminine Theology in India, Inner Traditions, 1974.
David Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, University of California Press, 1985.
_, The Sword and the Flute—Kali and Krishna: Dark Visions of the
Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology, University of California Press, 1975.
Shyam KishoreLal, Female Divinities in Hindu Mythology and Ritual, Puna Press, 1980.
Leonard and Clinton Seely, Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair, Shambhala, 1982.
Erich Neumann, The Great Mother, Princeton University Press, 1961.
Sister Nivedita, Notes on Some Wonderings, Vedanta Press, 1993.
Margaret Noble, Kali the Mother, Vedanta Press, 1985.
D. R. Rajeshwari, Sakti Iconography, South Asia Books, 1988.
Barbara Walker, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper San Francisco, 1983.
THE PATH OF CREATIVITY
Sufi/Islam
Two 1993 books concerning women and Sufism are available from Pir Publications: Woman’s Body, Woman’s Word, by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, and And the Sky is Not the Limit, by Amatullah Armstrong. There’s also The Too of Islam, by Sachiko Murata, State University of New York, 1992, which concentrates on gender relationships. The Winter 1994 issue of Gnosis Magazine is devoted to Sufism, and includes “Women and Sufism” by Camille Adams Helminski. For more general works on Sufism, consider the following books; to go to the very heart of Sufism, read the poet Rumi.
N. P. Archer, ed., The Sufi Mystery, Octagon, 1981.
O. M. Burke, Among the Dervishes, Dutton, 1975.
William C. Chittick, Faith and Practice of Islam, Pir, 1993.
_, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, State
University of New York, 1983.
H. B. M. Dervish, Journey with a Sufi Master, Octagon, 1982.
Abu Bkr Siraj ad-Din, The Book of Certainty: The Sufi Doctrine of Faith, Vision & Gnosis, Islamic Texts, 1993.
Wali Allah al-Dihlawi, Sufism and the Islamic Tradition, Octagon, 1980.
Reshad Feild, The Last Barrier, Harper & Row, 1976.
_, Steps to Freedom, Threshold, 1983.
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Al-Ghazali: The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, Islamic Texts, 1993.
Jean Houston, The Search for the Beloved: Journey In Mythology and Sacred Psychology, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1987.
Sheik Nur al-Jerrabi (Lex Hixon), Atom From the Sun of Knowledge, Pir, 1993.
Kabir, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, trans. by Robert Bly, Beacon, 1977.
Martin Lings, Muhammed, Pir, 1993.
_, What is Sufism? Islamic Texts, 1975.
Seyyed Nasr, Sufi Essays, Schocken, 1977.
Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jala-loddin Rumi, East-West, 1980.
Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East, Penguin, 1972.
_, The Way of the Sufi, Doubleday, 1969.
J. Marvin Spiegelman, ed., Sufism, Islam and Jungian Psychology, New Falcon, 1992.
L. F. Rushbrook Williams, Sufi Studies: East and West, Dutton, 1973.
Angels
Angels are in, given the plethora of books on them as an indication: Mortimer J. Adler, The Angels and Us, Macmillan, 1982.
William Bloom, Devas, Fairies and Angels: A Modern Approach, Gothic Image, 1986.
Sophy Burnham, Angel Letters, Ballentine, 1991.
_, The Book of Angels, Ballentine, 1989.
Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes, Uni*Sun, 1988.
Henry Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, Princeton University, 1977. Gustav Davidson, A Dictionary of Angels, Free Press, 1980.
Geddes MacGregor, Angels: Ministers of Grace, Paragon, 1988.
David Spangler, Revelation: Birth of a New Age, Rainbow Bridge, 1976. Rudolf Steiner, The Influence of Spiritual Beings upon Man, Anthroposophical Press, 1982.
Terry Lynn Taylor, Messengers of Light: The Angel’s Guide to Spiritual Growth, H. J. Kramer, 1990.
Theodora Ward, Men and Angels, Viking, 1969.
Meditation:
oko Beck, Nothing Special: Liuing Zen, HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Hubert Benoit, Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine, Inner Traditions International, 1990.
Thubten Chodron, What Color is Your Mind?, Snow Lion, 1993.
Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook, Bantam, 1990.
Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation, Shambhala, 1983.
Lama Anagarika Govinda, Creative Meditation and Multi-Dimensional Consciousness, Quest, 1976.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, A Meditation Handbook, Tharpa, 1990.
Tenzin Gyatso, The XIV Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity and Insight, Snow Lion, 1985.
Thich Nhat Hanh, A Guide to Walking Meditation, Parallax, 1985 -, Being Peace, Parallax, 1985.
Aryeh Kalan, Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide, Schocken, 1985. Jack Kornfield, A Path With A Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, Bantam, 1993.
_, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation,
Shambhala, 1987.
Stephen Levine, A Gradual Awakening, Doubleday, 1978.
_, Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious
Dying, Doubleday, 1982.
Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action, Doubleday, 1973. Kathleen McDonald, How to Meditate, Wisdom, 1985.
Anthony de Mello, Sadhana: A Way to God, Christian Exercises in Eastern Form, Doubleday, 1984.
Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Doubleday, 1957.
Lati Rinbochay, Denma Locho Rinbochay, Leah Zahler, and Jeffery Hopkins, Meditative States in Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom, 1983.
Kalu Rinpoche, The Gem Ornament of Manifold Oral Instructions, KDK Publications, 1983.
Ninian Smart, Buddhism & Christianity: Rivals and Allies, University of Hawaii, 1993.
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, HarperSanFrancisco,
1992.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Transforming Problems into Happiness, Wisdom,
1993.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Weatherhill, 1986.
Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Shambhala, 1973.
Chagdud Tulku, Gates to Buddhist Practice, Padma Publishing, 1993. Tarthang Tulku, Gesture of Balance, Dharma, 1977.
Allan Wallace, Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, Wisdom, 1993.
Taoism
Mantak Chia and Maneewan Chia, Healing Love Through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy, Healing Tao Books, 1986.
I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, Bollingen Series XIX, Princeton University, 1950.
Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, New Directions, 1965.
Liu LMing, Awakening to the Tao, Shambhala, 1988.
Deng Ming-Dao, The Wandering Taoist, Harper & Row, 1983.
The Secret of the Golden Flower, Richard Wilhelm, trans., with commentary by C. G. Jung, Causeway, 1975.
Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching, trans. by Gia-Fu-Feng and Jane English, Random House, 1972.
Alan Watts, The Watercourse Way, Pantheon, 1975.
Gurdjieff
J. G. and Elizabeth Bennett, Idiots in Paris, Samuel Weiser, 1991.
G. I. Gurdjieff, Life is Real Only Then, When “I Am”, Dutton, 1978.
_, Meetings with Remarkable Men, Dutton, 1963.
_, Views from the Real World, Dutton, 1973.
Kathryn Hulme, Undiscovered Country in Search of Gurdjieff, Little, Brown, 1966.
P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
, The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution, Vintage, 1974.
Kathleen Riordan Speeth, The Gurdjieff Work, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1989.
Charles T. Tart, Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential, Shambhala, 1986.
Some sources for books on Gurdjieff and his work:
Bennett Books, PO Box 1553, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
By the Way Books, PO BOX 1417 G, Lawrenceville, GA 30246.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE IN DAILY LIFE
Rituals
Numerous books on rituals are in print. To find one that suits you, go to a woman’s bookstore, scan the titles of the “recipe” books to see which one “shines” at you or draws your attention in some way, then flip through it. If you stand there reading for some time, you’ve found the right book.
Diane Mariechild has a number of other books out, as does Z. Budapest. Budapest’s include Grandmother Moon: Lunar Magic in Our Lives, HarperCollins, 1991, and The Grandmother of Time, HarperCollins, 1989.
Other good ones are:
Sedona Cahill and Josh Helpern, The Ceremonial Circle: Practice, Ritual and Renewal for Personal and Community Healing, HarperCollins,
1990.
J. C. Cooper, The Aquarian Dictionary of Festivals, Aquarian, 1991.
Marian Green, A Calendar of Festivals, Element Books, 1991.
Richard Heinber, Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth’s Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony, Quest, 1993.
Shekhinah Mountainwater, Ariadne’s Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic, Crossing, 1991.
Starhawk, The Spiral Dance, Harper & Row, 1989.
Barbara Walker, Women’s Rituals: A Sourcebook, Harper & Row, 1990.
WOMEN MYSTICS
Ann Bancroft, Weavers of Wisdom: Women Mystics of the Twentieth Century, Arkana, 1989.
Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Loving Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, Harper & Row, 1993.
Meditations With series, edited by Matthew Fox, Bear & Company (includes writings of such female Christian mystics as Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and Teresa of Avila).
Leonore Friedman, Meetings with Remarkable Women, Shambhala, 1987.
Swami Ghananada and Sir John Stewart-Wallace, eds., Women Saints: East and West, Vedanta, 1979.
Mary Giles, ed., The Feminist Mystic, Crossroad, 1982.
Daniel Goleman, Varieties of Meditative Experience, Dutton, 1977.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Modem Library, 1988.
Roshi Jiyu Kennett, How to Grow a Lotus Blossom, Abbey, 1977.
Ellen Sidor, ed., A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism, Primary Point, 1987.
Bernadette Roberts, The Path to No-Self, Shambhala, 1985.
Eveyln Underhill, Practical Mysticism, Dent, 1914.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951.
