Carol P. Christ (1945–2021)

Carol P. Christ is an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, is a Rockefeller Fellow, and has taught at multiple prestigious universities. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale in Religious Studies and a B. A. from Stanford with honors in Humanities. She has written multiple books on women and spirituality. Source: www.ciis.edu.

The reviewer for "Christian Century," said of this book, "Christ underscores the connections between women's spiritual quest and the social quest for wholeness. Her sensitively written study is one of the most articulate and cogent representations of a growing literature of a feminist understanding of the sacred which functions as a religion.… (mais)

This collection of essays is among my top religious reads of all time (so much so that I bought womanspirit rising by the same editors).

One of the things that really sets this collection apart is the inclusion of essays by authors of all religious backgrounds. Paganism, Judaism, Christianity - all standing side by side with the same message - the re-establishment of the right of women to religious experience inside of a male-dominated cultural construct. It is not enough for women to be spiritual in privacy, but they should also do so publicly, and be respected for it.… (mais)