Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by WomenSusan Cahill Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. These selections feature centuries of this tradition's most intuitive writing: women ancient, medieval, and modern articulate the spiritual dimension of life. From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the contemporary African American poet Lucille Clifton, and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom; and it inspires artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of poetry, essays, prayers, letters, memoirs, stories, and theologies by wise women is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. |
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... The Book of Proverbs 32 Eishet Chayil / Proverbs 31 / E . M. Broner The Song of Songs A Portrait of Wisdom 36 38 40 BUDDHISM Therigatha Songs of the Nuns 42 GREECE Sappho / Fragment / Prayer to Aphrodite Antigone CHRISTIANITY.
... The Book of Proverbs 32 Eishet Chayil / Proverbs 31 / E . M. Broner The Song of Songs A Portrait of Wisdom 36 38 40 BUDDHISM Therigatha Songs of the Nuns 42 GREECE Sappho / Fragment / Prayer to Aphrodite Antigone CHRISTIANITY.
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... Prayer to Aphrodite Antigone CHRISTIANITY Mary THE MIDDLE AGES 45 47 50 Rabi'a ( 717-801 ) / Prayers Kassiane ( 804 ? - ? ) / Mary Magdalene 555 55 57 Hildegard of Bingen ( 1098-1179 ) / From Scivias / Liturgical Song Sun Bu - er ( 1124 ...
... Prayer to Aphrodite Antigone CHRISTIANITY Mary THE MIDDLE AGES 45 47 50 Rabi'a ( 717-801 ) / Prayers Kassiane ( 804 ? - ? ) / Mary Magdalene 555 55 57 Hildegard of Bingen ( 1098-1179 ) / From Scivias / Liturgical Song Sun Bu - er ( 1124 ...
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Contents
The Goddess Isis of Egypt Isis Queen of Heaven | 9 |
The Story of Judith and Holofernes | 18 |
Lady Wisdom From The Book of Proverbs | 32 |
The Song of Songs | 38 |
Rabia 717801 Prayers | 55 |
Mechthild of Magdeburg 1207c 1297? From | 64 |
Christine de Pisan 1365c 1429 From The Treasure of the City | 77 |
Joan of Arc 14121431 From the Transcript of the Trial of Joan | 85 |
Natalia Ginzburg 19161991 The Little Virtues | 200 |
Madeleine LEngle 1918 From A Circle of Quiet | 209 |
Amy Clampitt 1920 A Silence | 217 |
Denise Levertov 1923 O Taste and See Work That | 223 |
Flannery OConnor 19251964 Letters from The Habit | 231 |
The Erotic | 238 |
Lucille Clifton 1936 Poems from The Book of Light | 244 |
Marge Piercy 1936 The common living dirt | 252 |
Mirabai 14981565 Song | 91 |
Margaret Fell 16141702 Letter to the Quaker Womens | 106 |
Sidqi d 1703 Ghazel | 112 |
Sarah Grimké 17921873 Letter to | 120 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18061861 From Sonnets from | 127 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 18151902 Introduction The Womans | 134 |
Florence Nightingale 18201910 Letter From Cassandra | 143 |
Christina Rossetti 18301894 Poems | 151 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 157 |
Florida ScottMaxwell 18831979 From The Measure of | 168 |
Dorothy Sayers 18901957 From Unpopular Opinions | 174 |
Iris Origo 19021988 From Images and Shadows | 184 |
Hannah Arendt 19061975 From The Human Condition | 188 |
Tillie Olsen 1913 DreamVision | 194 |
Marian Wright Edelman 1939 From The Measure of | 259 |
Linda Hogan 1947 From Department of the Interior | 274 |
A History | 280 |
Rita Dove 1952 Gospel | 288 |
ACCORDING TO SHAMANS SCHOLARS WITCHES AND THEOLOGIANS | 305 |
Lessons From | 321 |
Diana Eck 1945 From Encountering God | 341 |
Joan Halifax 1944 The Way of Compassion from | 354 |
Gods Dice | 368 |
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About the Editor 397 | |
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