Bibliography on Women and Religion

Susan C. Lau, North Huntingdon, PA


Fabella, Virginia; Oduyoye, Mercy Amba (Eds.) (1989): With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology. Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY. # 1071. [CHRISTIANITY; THIRD WORLD]

Fabella, Virginia; Park, Sun Ai Lee (Eds.) (1990): We Dare to Dream: Doing Theology as Asian Women. Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY. # 325. [ASIA; CHRISTIANITY]

Falco, Maria J (Ed.) (1996): Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft. Pennsylvania State University Press, State College PA. # 2133. [WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY]

Falk, Marcia (1990): The Song of Songs. HarperCollins, San Francisco CA. # 1325. [BIBLE--OT]

Falk, Marcia (1995): The Book of Blessings: A Feminist Re-Creation of Jewish Prayer for the Weekdays, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco CA. # 1809. [FEMINISM; JUDAISM; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS; WORSHIP]

Falk, Nancy A; Gross, Rita M (Eds.) (1989): Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures. 2nd ed. Harper & Row, San Francisco CA. # 299. [WORLD RELIGIONS]

Faria, Stella; Alexander, Anna Vareed; Tellis-Nayak, Jessie B (1984): The Emerging Christian Woman: Church and Society Perspectives. Saatprachar Press, Indore, India. # 1090. [CHRISTIANITY; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Faricy, Robert L (1987): The Lord's Dealing: The Primacy of the Feminine in Christian Spirituality. Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ. # 300. [CHRISTIANITY; SPIRITUALITY]

Farmaian, Sattareh Farman (1992): Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution. Doubleday & Co., New York NY. # 1721. (Farmaian, Sattareh Farman) [FARMAIAN, SATTAREH FARMAN; ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST]

Farmer, David A; Hunter, Edwina (Eds.) (1990): And Blessed Is She: Sermons by Women. Zondervan, Grand Rapids MI. # 301. [WORSHIP]

Farmer, Sharon; Rosenwein, Barbara H (Eds.) (2000): Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY. # 2678. [MIDDLE AGES; MINISTRY; NUNS]

Fatula, Mary Ann (1987): Catherine of Siena's Way. (Series Ed: O'Donoghue, Noel Dermont. The Way of the Christian Mystics, 4.) Michael Glazier, Wilmington DE. # 302. (Catherine of Siena) [CATHERINE OF SIENA]

Faull, Katherine M (Ed.) (1997): Moravian Women's Memoirs: Spiritual Narratives, 1750-1820. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY. # 2181. [FORCLASS; PROTESTANTISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Faure, Bernard (1998): The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ. # 2533. [BUDDHISM; GENDER & SEXUALITY]

Feeney, Leonard (1975): Mother Seton: St. Elizabeth of New York. Ravengate Press, Cambridge. # 303. (Seton, Elizabeth Ann Bayley) [SETON, ELIZABETH ANN BAYLEY]

Feeney, Robert (1989): Mother of the Americas. Aquinas Press, Forest Grove OR. # 326. [MARY]

Fehribach, Adeline (1998): Women in the Life of the Bridegroom: A Feminist Historical-Literary Analysis of the Female Characters in the Fourth Gospel. Liturgical Press, Collegeville MN. # 2478. [BIBLE--NT]

Feld, Merle (2000): A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey. State University of New York Press, Ithaca NY. # 2737. [FEMINISM; JUDAISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Feldhaus, Anne (1995): Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra. Oxford University Press, New York NY. # 1802. [HINDUISM]

Feldhaus, Anne (Ed.) (1996): Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion. State University of New York Press, Ithaca NY. # 2042. [HINDUISM]

Feldman, Christina (1990): Woman Awake: A Celebration of Women's Wisdom. Viking Penguin, New York NY. # 1191. [SPIRITUALITY; WISDOM]

Feldman, Christina (1996): The Quest of the Warrior Woman: A Path of Healing, Empowerment, and Transformation. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco CA. # 1892. [HEALTH & HEALING; WAR & PEACE]

Feldman, Christina (1998): Mother Teresa: Love Stays. Crossroad, New York NY. # 2701. [TERESA OF CALCUTTA (1910-1997)]

Feldman, David M (1980): Birth Control in Jewish Law: Marital Relations, Contraception, and Abortion as Set Forth in Classic Texts of Jewish Law. Greenwood Press, Westport CT. # 327. [ETHICS & MORALITY; JUDAISM]

Feng, Chi-ts§ai (1994): The Three-Inch Golden Lotus. (Fiction From Modern China.) University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI. # 1900. [CHINA; FICTION; FOOTBINDING; FORCLASS]

Fenton, Thomas P; Heffron, Mary J (Eds.) (1987): Women in the Third World: A Directory of Resources. Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY. # 304. [RESOURCES; THIRD WORLD]

Ferguson, Marianne (1995): Women and Religion. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ. # 1913. [WORLD RELIGIONS]

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock (1965): Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Doubleday, Garden City NY. # 328. [ISLAM; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock (Ed.) (1985): Women and the Family in the Middle East. University of Texas Press, Austin TX. # 1901. [ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST]

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock (1998): In Search of Islamic Feminism. Doubleday, New York NY. # 2573. [FEMINISM; ISLAM]

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock; Bezirgan, Basima (Eds.) (1977): Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. University of Texas Press, Austin TX. # 329. [ISLAM]

Ferrante, Joan M (1985): Woman as Image in Medieval Literature from the Twelfth Century to Dante. Labyrinth Press, Durham NC. # 305. [HISTORY; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGES; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS]

Ferrazzi, Cecelia (1996): Autobiogiography of an Aspiring Saint. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL. # 2275. [FERRAZZI, CECELIA]

Feuillet, Andre (1984): Jesus and His Mother. St. Bede's Publications, Still River MA. # 306. [BIBLE--NT; MARY]

Fewell, Donna Nolan; Gunn, David M (1993): Gender, Power, & Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story. Abingdon Press, Nashville TN. # 1277. [BIBLE--OT; ETHICS & MORALITY; GENDER & SEXUALITY]

Fickett, Harold; Gilbert, Douglas R (1986): Flannery O'Connor: Images of Grace. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids MI. # 307. (O'Connor, Flannery) [O'CONNOR, FLANNERY]

Field-Bibb, Jacqueline (1991): Women Towards Priesthood: Ministerial Politics and Feminist Praxis. Cambridge University Press, New York NY. # 1108. [MINISTRY; PRIESTS, SHAMANS, SORCERERS, ETC.; PROTESTANTISM; ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Finch, Henry Leroy (1999): Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace: A Window on the World of Simone Weil. Continuum International, New York NY. # 2874. [WEIL, SIMONE]

Findly, Ellison Banks (Ed.) (2000): Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal. Wisdom Publications, Somerville MA. # 2735. [BUDDHISM]

Fine, Irene (1985): Educating the New Jewish Woman--A Dynamic Approach. Woman's Institute for Continuing Jewish Education, San Diego CA. # 308. [JUDAISM]

Finger, Reta Haldeman; Sandhaas, Kari (Eds.) (2001): Widsom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Chrisian Feminism. Innisfree Press, Philadelphia PA. # 2890. [CHRISTIANITY; FEMINISM]

Finson, Shelley Davis (1991): Women and Religion: A Bibliographic Guide to Christian Feminist Liberation Theology. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ON. # 1120. [BIBLIOGRAPHIES; CHRISTIANITY; FEMINISM]

Firestone, Tirzah (1998): With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith. NAL Dutton, New York NY. # 2583. [FIRESTONE, TIRZAH; JUDAISM]

Fischer, Clare B (1996): Of Spirituality: A Feminist Perspective. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ. # 2126. [FEMINISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Fischer, Kathleen (1988): Women at the Well: Feminist Perspectives on Spirituality. Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ. # 309. [FEMINISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Fischer, Kathleen (1995): Autumn Gospel: Women in the Second Half of Life. Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ. # 1929. [HEALTH & HEALING; SPIRITUALITY]

Fischer, Kathleen (2000): Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively. Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ. # 2677. [HEALTH & HEALING; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY]

Fishburn, Janet Forsythe (1982): The Fatherhood of God and the Victorian Family: The Social Gospel in America. Fortress, Philadelphia PA. # 310. [AMERICA: NORTH; CHRISTIANITY; PATRIARCHY; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Fisher, Judi; Wood, Janet (Eds.) (1995): A Place at the Table. Morehouse Publishing, Ridgefield CT. # 1888. [BIBLE--NT]

FitzGerald, Kyriaki Karidoyanes (1998): Women Deacons in the Orthodox Church: Called to Holiness and Ministry. Spiritworks Ministries, New York NY. # 2586. [MINISTRY; ORTHODOX CHURCH; SPIRITUALITY]

FitzGerald, Kyriaki Karidoyanes (Ed.) (1999): Orthodox Women Speak: Discerning the 'Sings of the Times'. WCC Publications, Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Brookline MA. # 2877. {keywords} [INCOMPLETE]

Flaherty, Sandra (1992): Woman, Why Do You Weep? Spirituality for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Paulist Press, Mahwah NJ. # 1503. [ETHICS & MORALITY; SPIRITUALITY]

Flanagan, Sabina (1989): Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life: 1098-1179. Routledge, New York NY. # 311. (Hildegard of Bingen) [HILDEGARD OF BINGEN]

Fleming, Daniel (1992): The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar: A Window on Ancient Syrian Religion. (Harvard Semitic Series.) Scholars Press, Atlanta GA. # 1496. [ANCIENT NEAR EAST; PRIESTS, SHAMANS, SORCERERS, ETC.; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS]

Flemming, Leslie A (Ed.) (1989): Women's Work for Women: Missionaries and Social Change in Asia. Westview Press, Boulder CO. # 780. [ASIA; CHRISTIANITY; MINISTRY; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Flesher, Paul; McCracken, Virgil (1988): Oxen, Women, or Citizens?: Slaves in the System of the Mishnah. Scholars Press, Atlanta GA. # 312. [JUDAISM]

Flinders, Carol Lee (1993): Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Harper, San Francisco CA. # 1571. (Catherine of Genoa) [CATHERINE OF GENOA; CATHERINE OF SIENA; CLARE OF ASSISI; JULIAN OF NORWICH; MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG; TERESA OF AVILA; THERESE OF LISIEUX]

Flinders, Carol Lee (1995): A Little Book of Women Mystics. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco CA. # 1807. [SPIRITUALITY]

Flinders, Carol Lee (1999): At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst. HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco CA. # 2455. [FEMINISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (1996): Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY. # 2187. [GENDER & SEXUALITY; INDIA; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS]

Foh, Susan T (1980): Women and the Word of God: A Response to Biblical Feminism. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Phillipsburg NJ. # 1985. [BIBLE; FEMINISM]

Foley, Helene P (Ed.) (1993): The Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ. # 1636. [CLASSICAL GREECE & ROME; GODDESSES & GODDESS WORSHIP]

Foley, Nadine (Ed.) (1999): Journey in Faith and Fidelity: Women Shaping Religous Life for a Renewed Church. Continuum, New York NY. # 2655. [ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Follmar, Mary Ann (1987): The Steps of Love: In "The Dialogue" of St. Catherine of Siena. St. Bede's Publications, Petersham MA. # 313. (Catherine of Siena) [CATHERINE OF SIENA]

Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva (2000): Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender. Stanford University Press, Port Chester NY. # 2774. [CHRISTIANITY; GENDER & SEXUALITY; JUDAISM; MENSTRUATION]

Ford, J Massyngbaerde (1997): Redeemer--Friend and Mother: Salvation in Antiquity and in the Gospel of John. Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis MN. # 2242. [BIBLE--NT; DIVINE FEMININE]

Fortune, Marie M (1991): Family Violence: A Workshop Curriculum for Clergy and Other Helpers. Pilgrim Press, New York NY. # 1147. [ETHICS & MORALITY; MINISTRY; VIOLENCE]

Fortune, Marie M (1995): Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us. Vol. 1. Continuum, New York NY. # 1957. [ETHICS & MORALITY]

Fortune, Marie Marshall (1987): Keeping the Faith: Questions and Answers for the Abused Woman. Harper & Row, San Francisco CA. # 314. [ETHICS & MORALITY]

Fortune, Marie Marshall (1990): Is Nothing Sacred? When Sex Invades the Pastoral Relationship. Harper & Row, San Francisco CA. # 1067. [ETHICS & MORALITY; MINISTRY]

Foster, Barbara; Foster, Michael (1987): Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel. Harper & Row, San Francisco CA. # 315. (David-Neel, Alexandra) [ASIA; BUDDHISM; DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA]

Foster, John O (1987): Life and Labors of Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Cott, The First Lady Licensed to Preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. (1872) (Women in American Protestant Religion, 1800-1930, 14.) Garland Publishing, New York NY. # 1197. (Van Cott, Maggie Newton) [AMERICA: NORTH; HISTORY; METHODIST CHURCH; MINISTRY; PROTESTANTISM; UNITED STATES; VAN COTT, MAGGIE NEWTON]

Foster, Lawrence (1981): Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, New York NY. # 1188. [AMERICA: NORTH; GENDER & SEXUALITY; HISTORY; PROTESTANTISM: RADICAL & SECTARIAN]

Foster, Lawrence (1991): Women, Faith, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons. (Utopianism & Communitarianism.) Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY. # 1520. [CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS; MORMONS; PROTESTANTISM: RADICAL & SECTARIAN]

Foster, Patricia (Ed.) (1994): Minding the Body: Women Writers of Body and Soul. Doubleday & Co., New York NY. # 1722. [BODY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES; SPIRITUALITY]

Fox, Matthew (1983): Original Blessing. Bear & Co., Santa Fe NM. # 317. [ECOLOGY; FEMINISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Fox, Matthew (Ed.) (1987): Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works. Bear & Co., Santa Fe NM. # 316. (Hindegard of Bingen) [HILDEGARD OF BINGEN]

Fox, Michael V (1991): Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia SC. # 1981. [BIBLE--OT]

Fox, Thomas C (1995): Sexuality and Catholicism. George Braziller Inc., New York NY. # 1961. [GENDER & SEXUALITY; ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH]

France, RT (1997): Women in the Church's History: A Test Case for Biblical Hermeneutics. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids MI. # 2441. [BIBLE; CHRISTIANITY]

Francois de Saint-Marie (1990): The Photo Album of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Christian Classics, Westminster MD. # 1381. (Therese of Lisieux) [THERESE OF LISIEUX]

Frankel, Ellen (1997): The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah. HarperCollins, New York NY. # 2442. [BIBLE--OT; FORCLASS]

Frankiel, Tamar (1990): The Voice of Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism. Harper, San Francisco CA. # 318. [JUDAISM; SPIRITUALITY]

Franklin, Margaret Ann (1986): The Force of the Feminine: Women, Men and the Church. Allen & Unwin, Australia. # 1265. [CHRISTIANITY; MINISTRY]

Franz, Marie-Louise Von (1986): Problems of the Feminine in Fairytales. Spring Publications, Dallas TX. # 319. [FAIRY & FOLK TALES; PSYCHOLOGY]

Franzmann, Majella (1999): Women and Religion. Oxford University Press, New York NY. # 2685. [WORLD RELIGIONS]

Frascati-Lochhead, Marta (1998): Kenosis and Feminist Theology: The Challenge of Gianni Vattimo. (McGill Studies in the History of Religion.) State University of New York Press, Ithaca NY. # 2402. [FEMINISM]

Fraser, Antonia (1984): Weaker Vessel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York NY. # 320. [EUROPE; FEMINISM]

Freer, Jean (1988): The New Feminist Tarot. Borgo Press, San Bernadino CA. # 330. [ESOTERICA]

Friedman, Jean E (1990): Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.) University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC. # 2613. [AMERICA: NORTH; CHRISTIANITY]

Friedman, Lenore (1987): Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America. Shambhala Publications, Berkeley CA. # 1160. [AMERICA: NORTH; BUDDHISM]

Friedrich, Paul (1982): The Meaning of Aphrodite. University Press, Chicago IL. # 321. [GODDESSES & GODDESS WORSHIP]

Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson (1967): Kinaalda: A Study of the Navajo Girl's Puberty Ceremony. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT. # 322. [NATIVE AMERICANS; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS]

Fruzzetti, Lina M (1993): The Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society. Oxford University Press, New York NY. # 1681. [ASIA; SYMBOLS, MYTHS & RITUALS]

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva (1992): In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. Free Press, New York NY. # 1293. [BIBLE--OT; FORCLASS; GODDESSES & GODDESS WORSHIP]

Fuchs, Esther (1987): Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction. (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture.) State University of New York Press, Albany NY. # 323. [FICTION; JUDAISM; LITERATURE]

Fuchs, Esther (1999): Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation. Vol. XXII. University Press of America, Lanham MD. # 2688. [HOLOCAUST; JUDAISM]

Fuchs, Esther (2000): Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, England. # 2924. [BIBLE; GENDER & SEXUALITY; SOCIAL & POLITICAL ISSUES]

Fuchs, Esther (*): Israelite Religion and Biblical Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield GB. # 2801. [INCOMPLETE; BIBLE; ISRAEL; JUDAISM]

Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (1994): Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology. Fortress Press, Minneapolis MN. # 1617. [CHRISTIANITY; FEMINISM]

Furlong, Monica (Ed.) (1984): Feminine in the Church. SPCK, London GB. # 1086. [CHRISTIANITY; FEMINISM]

Furlong, Monica (1987): Therese of Lisieux. Pantheon, New York NY. # 324. (Therese of Lisieux) [THERESE OF LISIEUX]

Furlong, Monica (1995): Bird of Paradise: Glimpses of Living Myth. Morehouse Publishing, Ridgefield CT. # 2145. [FURLONG, MONICA]

Fussner, F Smith (1994): "Time's Silent Stealth": A Tribute to Jane. Cross Cultural Publications, Notre Dame IN. # 1854. [FUSSNER, JANE SPENCER]

Futehally, Shama (1994): In the Dark of the Heart. HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco CA. # 1843. (Meera) [MEERA]


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