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On Feminist Spirituality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Anne Carr
Anne Carr*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Extract

Discussion about women and spirituality can range from romanticized claims of special privilege to insistence that equality means sameness. Some typical questions focus the issues. “What is a women's spirituality?” “How is it different from male spirituality?” “What is spirituality, anyway?” And, “what is a feminist spirituality?” “Is it androgynous?” “Is it a stage on the way to something else?”

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Editorial Essays
Information
Horizons , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Spring 1982 , pp. 96 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1982

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References

1 An earlier version of these reflections was presented at a seminar on feminist spirituality organized by Mary Jo Weaver of Indiana University, Bloomington, in October, 1981, and supported by a grant from Lilly Endowment.

2 See Research Report: Women in Church and Society, ed. Butler, Sara M.S.B.T., (Mahwah, NJ: Catholic Theological Society of America, 1978), pp. 32–40.Google Scholar

3 (Minneapolis: Winston, 1981).

4 Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980), p. 172.Google Scholar

5 “Why Not the Category Friend/Friendship?” Horizons 2/1 (Spring 1975), pp. 117–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar