Women, the Earth, the Divine

includes index and biblioraphy

I. Women 1. The present Situation of women .......................9 Origin of women`s Present situation .......9 Possible responses to women`s Historical Situation ............12 The response in the united states of America ..........15 The uniquense of the response .......16 What women have in common .....20 2. Ecofeminism ..............23 What is ecofeminism................23 The women /Nature issue ..........25 Instrumentalism .......30 Dualism .......32 Complementarity ........35 The one and the many ..............36 II. The Earth 3. Living the earth-Centered Future Today ..........43 Values ..............43 An Ethic of Care ........46 Transformation ............49 Bioregionalism ..............52 The green Movement .......55 4. Toward a Contemporary cosmology ..........60 Relating myth, Mysticism, and Science ..........61 Modern science and cosmology ...............63 The universe as the body of the Divinity .............71 The new Story / A new Story ..............73 III. The Divine 5. The holy spirit as the Feminine divine .............81 Why the Divine as Feminie.............81 The Function of the Holy Spirit ........82 The spirit/ word Relationship .......84 The holy spirit and the trinity ........86 The person of the Holy Spirit .........90 6. The Femine and the Major World religions ...........94 Hinduism - A religion of Many goddesses ...........95 Judaism - the Feminine in a Monotheistic context ......101 Buddhism - The feminie in a Non- Theistic Context ....106 Islam- women`s Challenge from within the tradition ......11