Center of Concern : Women, Religion and Spirituality

The "World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995" brought the issue of religion and spirituality into focus. The Global Women's project works toward a transformed world and faith tradition. This site describes some aspects of the transformation project.

Women's Studies in religion : a multicultural reader

The dissenting reader : feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible

On the cutting edge : the study of women in biblical worlds : essays in honor of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

That we may be mutually encouraged : feminism and the new perspective in Pauline studies

Comfortable with uncertainty : 108 teachings

Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist goddess of compassion

Reflections on a mountain lake : teachings on practical Buddhism

Soaring and settling : Buddhist perspectives on contemporary social and religious issues

Women of the way : discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom.

Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's women : tradition, revision, renewal

Aquinas, feminism, and the common good

Catholic and feminist : the surprising history of the American Catholic feminist movement

Catholic voices on Beijing : a call for social justice for women

The church women want : Catholic women in dialogue

Globalization, gender and religion : the politics of women's rights in Catholic and Muslim contexts

Good Catholic girls : how women are leading the fight to change the church

The papal "No" : a comprehensive guide to the Vatican's rejection of women's ordination

Sisters: Catholic nuns and the making of America

Taking back the truth: confronting Papal power and the religious right

When women become priests : the Catholic women's ordination debate

Women in Catholic higher education : border work, living experiences, and social justice

Hindu views on God and gender

This site on Hindu views of God and gender includes Smarta and Advaita; Vishnu and Shiva; Shakti; Ardhangini: the cornerstone of relationships; other Indian religions; and links to other relevant sites.

Hinduism, Hare Krishna, Homosexualty

This site provides information and support for GLBTI Vaishnavas and Hindus. It includes articles, spiritual literature, third sex literature, perspectives and more.

Hindu bioethics for the twenty-first century

She comes to take her rights : Indian women, property, and propriety

Suttee; a historical and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow-burning

Believing in women in Islam: unreading patriarchal interpretation of the qur' an

The cultural roots of American Islamicism

Islam, gender, & social change

Muslim women actists in North America : speaking for ourselves

Me & the mosque [DVD]

Progressive Muslims : on justice, gender and pluralism

The Qur'an, women, and modern society

Standing alone in Mecca: an American women's struggle for the soul of Islam

Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance

Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate

Daughters of Abraham: feminist thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Engendering Judaism : an inclusive theology and ethics.

Expanding the palace of Torah : Orthodoxy and feminism

The female face of God in Auschhhwitz : a Jewish feminist theology of the Holocaust

Feminist perspectives on Jewish studies

ReVisions : seeing Torah through a feminist lens

Women and the Jewish law : the essential texts, their history, and their relevance for today

Women of the wall [VHS Videorecording]

Women of the wall : claiming sacred ground at Judaism's holy site

American shaman: an odyssey of global healing traditions

Contemporary paganism: minority religions in a majoritarian America

Evolutionary witchcraft

In the wake of the goddesses : women, culture, and the biblical transformation of pagan myth

Language of the goddess : unearthing the hidden symbols of western civilization

Living goddesses

Rebirth of the goddess : finding meaning in feminist spirtuality

Restoring the goddess : equal rites for modern women

Twilight goddess : spiritual feminism and feminine spirituality

The woman in the shaman's body : reclaiming the feminine in religion

Women & goddess traditions in antiquity & today

Back talk! : women leaders changing the church

Bodies in question : gender, religion, text

The character of our communities : toward an ethic of liberation for the Church

Gender, ethnicity, and religion: views from the other side

Godly women : fundamentalism & female power

Her voice, her faith : women speak on world religions

A history of women and ordination

Hitting home : feminist ethics, women's work, and the betrayal of family values

Introducing womanist theology

Priestess, mother, sacred sister : religions dominated by women

Rave culture and religion

Transforming the faiths of our fathers : women who changed American religion

What men owe to women : men's voices from world religions

Wise women : over two thousand years of spiritual writing by women

Women and twentieth-century Protestantism