Take Back the Light: A Feminist Reclamation of Spirituality and Religion (New Feminist Perspectives)

By Sheila Ruth

Feminists have long argued that at the hands of patriarchal religious institutions, women have been brutalized, exploited, and manipulated. In this book, part philosophical analysis/part meditation, philosopher Sheila Ruth explores an ancient and profoundly different orientation to life, Paganism, to show the possibilities, the pleasures, and the power of connecting the self with the cosmic. Take Back the Light contains certain elements that make it unique: the blend of strategies-including philosophical analysis, poetry, autobiography, and mystical stories; an avowedly feminist stance that is grounded in traditional philosophical training as well as women's experience and feminist scholarship; and most particularly, the intention to make clear to those feminists who are opposed to religion in principle that spirituality need not be inconsistent with positive, progressive social action.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822630311
• ISBN13: 9780822630319
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

This book invokes you to Take Back The Light!

If you choose Goddesses and love the songs of the Earth, you will feel the rhythms and see the visions of the author as you celebrate the mysteries of the Spirit with her as she weaves philosophy and theology with feminism and spirituality into a feminist/pagan testimony. Contents Part One Chapter One Feminist Vision Chapter Two Spirit Chapter Three Religion That Serves Part Two Chapter Four A Feminist/Pagan Testimony Worth-ship Musings, Memories, and Messages Appendix The Religion of the Fathers: How and Why It Went Awr