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Take Back the Light
Sheila Ruth
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Description for Take Back the Light
Hardback. Sheila Ruth explores Paganism in order to show the possibilities, the pleasures, and the power of connecting the self with the cosmic. Series: New Feminist Perspectives. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
New Feminist Perspectives
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847678792
SKU
V9780847678792
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About Sheila Ruth
Sheila Ruth, professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, is the author of Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies.
Reviews for Take Back the Light
Ruth gives an eloquent examination of spirit, which goes beyond ideological issues of feminism and considers the nature of spirit within all life. . . . for those . . . who believe the personal and spiritual give ultimate power to the political, this book provides a welcome affirmation and a potent argument for the importance of the spiritual to ... Read more