Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and other Pagans in America Today. Rev. and expanded ed. Penguin/Arkana, 1997.

Alba, De-Anna. The Cauldron of Change: Myths, Mysteries and Magick of the Goddess. Delphi Press, 1993.

Anderson, Sherry Ruth & Patricia Hopkins. The Feminine Face of God: the Unfolding of the Sacred in Women. Bantam Books, 1992.

Ann, Martha & Dorothy Myers Imel. Goddesses in World Mythology. Oxford University Press, 1994.
The authors' aim is to compile accurate information about goddesses in order to add to the pool of potential female role models. They offer over 11,00 entries covering over 3,000 years of goddess worship. Ann has a graduate degree in religious studies; Imel is a professional writer. Entries are listed geographically within 12 regions. Entries vary in size and scope. Only a few entries include detail. The longer entries occasionally relate stories about the goddess. Goddesses are indexed by name and attribute. The bibliography is substantial.

Ardinger, Barbara. Goddess Meditations. Llewellyn, 1998.

_____. A Woman's Book of Rituals & Celebrations. New World Library, 1995.
Celebration of the Goddess through rituals and blessings. These rituals celebrate love, peace and rites of passage in a woman's life.

Arrien, Angeles. The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Path of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Artress, Lauren. Walking the Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool. Riverhead Books, 1996

Aswynn, Freya. Leaves of Yggdrasil: Runes, Gods, Magic, Feminine Mysteries, Folklore. Llewellyn, 1990.

Austen, Hallie Iglehart. The Heart of the Goddess: Art, Myth, and Meditations of the World's Sacred Feminine. Wingbow, 1990.

Baker, Mariam. Woman as Divine: Tales of the Goddess. Crescent Heart, 1982.

Baldwin, Christina. Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest. Doubleday, 1998.
Combines spiritual guidance with ideas for the practice of writing. Sample entries are taken from the author's journal workshops.

Ban Breathnach, Sarah. Simple Abundance: a Daybook of Comfort and Joy. Warner Books, 1995.
ghostmoon's web page on Simple abundance

Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. Penguin/Arkana, 1993.

Baxter, Anne. Woman's Work: a Guide to Growth and Self-Discovery. Herald Press, 1995.

Berger, Pamela C. The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint. Beacon Press, 1985.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Crossing to Avalon: a Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage. HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

_____. Goddesses in Everywoman: a New Psychology of Women. HarperPerennial, 1985.

Borysenko, Joan. Fire in the Soul: a New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism. Warner Books, 1994.

_____. A Woman's Book of Life: the Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle. Riverhead Books, 1996.

Boucher, Sandy. Opening the Lotus : a Woman's Guide to Buddhism. Ballantine Books, 1998.
Explores the fundamental teachings of Buddhism, and examines contemporary Buddhist attitudes toward women. Includes meditations for beginners and a directory of female Buddhist teachers.

Budapest, Z. The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries. Wingbow Press, 1989.

_____. Summoning the Fates: a Woman's guide to Destiny. Harmony Books, 1998.
The Fates are three goddesses ruling over our challenges and opportunities. They are said to control the thread of our lives. The ancients knew the secrets of communicating with these three sisters, but this type of knowledge has been lost in modern times. The sisters correspond to the past, present, and future. They are especially active at the major life turning points, when new missions for our life's work are received. Summoning the Fates shows us how to interact with these primal forces. Includes rituals and and prayers.

Burnham, Sophy. The Ecstatic Journey. Ballantine Books, 1997.
Explores the drama and mystery of mystical experiences, and their power to change our lives. Burnham describes her own "rowing toward God," the difficult journey toward mystical awareness.

Cabot, Laurie. The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Empower. Delta, 1997.
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Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way: a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Putnam, 1992.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces. 2nd ed. Princeton University Press, 1972. (Bollingen Series ; 17)

_____. The Power of Myth. Doubleday, 1988.
PARTIAL CONTENTS: Chapter 6. The Gift of the Goddess.

Canan, Janine, ed. She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets. Crossing Press, 1989.

Carnes, Robin Deen and Sally Craig. Sacred Circles: a Guide to Creating Your Own Women's Spirituality Group. HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.
Guidebook for creating a woman's spirituality group, a powerful community in which to thrive spiritually.

Carson, Anne. Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine: An Annotated Bibliography. Crossing Press, 1986.

Chittister, Joan D. Heart of Flesh: a Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men. Eerdmanns, 1998.

Chodron, Pema. When Things Fall Apart. Shambhala.

Christ, Carol P. Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest. 3rd ed. with a new afterword. Beacon Press, 1995.
A collection of important writings in spirituality, representing a wide diversity of women's experiences.

_____. Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess. Harper & Row, 1987.

_____. Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality. Perseus Press, 1997.
Feminist thealogy typically begins, says Christ, from experience rather than moving from theory to practice; it is also typically ecologically-centered. Opening yourself to the Goddess will cause you to challenge your most basic assumptions.

Christ, Carol P. and Judith Plaskow, eds. Womanspirit Rising: a Feminist Reader in Religion. HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Cleary, William. Prayers to She Who Is. Crossroad, 1995.
A prayerbook written in the second-person; work stems from Elizabeth Johnson's work, She Who Is. Envisions a divine being as the energy of motherly love.

Clinchy, Blythe McVicker and Jill Mattuck Tarule, eds. Women's Ways of Knowing. 10th anniversary ed. Basic Books, 1997.
This scholarly work explores how women acquire their knowledge. The writing is based on interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, and creates five categories of how women know what they know. Generally, women approach life from the point of view of relationships and connectedness to people around them. The authors also talk about the process of obtaining their research: why they did the study and what parts of it surprised them.

Condren, Mary. The Serpent and the Goddess : Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland. Harper & Row, 1989.
Explores the interaction of the church and state in ancient Ireland and how the patriarchal structures evolved. Divided into three sections: the age of Eve, the age of Brigit, and the age of Mary, roughly corresponding to the pre-Christian, early Christian, and contemporary periods. Condren challenges the reader to envision a spirituality and world view that honors and empowers women, and reveres the earth.

Conn, Joann Wolski, ed. Women's Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development. 2nd ed. Paulist Press, 1996.

Conway, D. J. Falcon Feath & Valkyrie Sword: Feminine Shamanism, Witchcraft and Magick. Llewellyn, 1995.

_____. Maiden, Mother, Crone: the Myth and Reality of the Triple Goddess. Llewellyn, 1994.

Craighead, Menrad. The Mother Songs: Images of God the Mother. Mahwah, 1986.

Daly, Mary. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Beacon, 1978.

_____. Outercourse: the Be-dazzling Voyage. HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Daly, Mary in cahoots with Jane Caputi. Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Dames, Michael. Silbury Treasure: The Great Goddess Rediscovered. Thames and Hudson, 1976.

De Grandis, Francesca. Be a Goddess!: a Guide to Celtic Spells and Wisdom for Self-Healing, Prosperity, and Great Sex. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

Dematrakopoulos, Stephanie. Listening to our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom. Beacon, 1983.

Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddess: A Source Book. Pergamon, 1990.

Diamond, Irene and Goria Orenstein, eds. Reweaving the World: the Emergence of Ecofeminism. Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Douglas, E. and Jane Dempsey. Women, Gender, and Christian Community. John Knox Press, 1997.

Downing, Christine. The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine. Continuum, 1996.
CONTENTS: To start us imagining: the Goddess -- Persephone in Hades -- Ariadne: mistress of the labyrinth -- Coming to terms with Hera -- Dear Grey Eyes: a revaluation of Pallas Athene -- Beginning with Gaia -- Artemis: the goddess who comes from afar -- And now you, Aphrodite -- To keep us imagining: the child.

_____, ed. The Long Journey Home: Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future. HarperSanFrancisco, 1988.
Eisler describes Goddess-worshipping societies that are believed to have existed several thousand years ago in eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. This book celebrates partnership, equality, and connectedness to nature. Eisler gives us a sense of the healing power residing in the repressed feminine and lunar realms.

Eller, Cynthia. Living in the Lap of the Goddess: the Feminist Spirituality Movement in America. Beacon Press, 1995.

Elsbeth, Marguerite and Kenneth Johnson. The Silver Wheel: Women's Myths & Mysteries in the Celtic Tradition. Llewellyn, 1996.

Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Ballantine Books, 1995.
ghostmoon's Wild Wolf Woman page

Falk, Nancy and Rita Gross. Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures. Harper & Row, 1980.

Farrar, Janet and Stewart. The Witches' Goddess. Phoenix, 1987.

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler, ed. In Memory of Her: a Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins.

_____. Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical issues in Feminist Christology. SCM, 1995.

_____, ed. The Power of Naming: a Concilium Reader in Feminist Liberation Theology. Orbis Books, 1996.

Firestone, Linda A. Awakening Minerva: the Power of Creativity in Women's Lives. Warner.

Fischer, Kathleen. Women at the Well: Feminist Perspectives on Spiritual Direction. Paulist Press, 1989.

Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen: a Visionary Life. Routledge, 1989.

Flinders, Carol Lee. At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and Feminist Thirst. HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.
Flinders details how she merges spiritual practices, such as silence and relinquishment of the ego, with the feminist ideal of finding her own voice.

Fox, Matthew. Original Blessings: a Primer in Creation Spirituality. Bear & Co., 1983.

Froehle, Virginia Ann. Called into Her Presence: Praying with Feminine Images of God. Ave Maria Press, 1992.

Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: a Symbol for Our Time. HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.

Galland, China. The Bond Between Women: a Journey to Fierce Compassion. Riverhead, 1998.
Galland travels to India, Nepal and South America to collect spiritual lessons from women whose faith is strong.

_____. Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna. Viking, 1990.

Garcia, Jo and Sara Maitland. Walking on the Water: Women Talk about Spirituality. Virago, 1983.

George, Demetra. Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess. HarperCollins, 1992.

Giles, Mary E., ed. The Feminist Mystic, and Other Essays on Women and Spirituality. Crossroad, 1982.
CONTENTS: The feminist mystic / Mary E. Giles -- Take back the night / Mary E. Giles -- Immanent Mother / Meinrad Craighead -- The courage to be alone, in and out of marriage / Margaret R. Miles -- The feminine dimension of contemplation / Wendy M. Wright -- The sexual mystic: embodied spirituality / Dorothy H. Donnelly -- Armed with a burning patience: reflections on Simone Weil / Kathryn Hohlwein.

Gimbutas, Marija. The Civilization of the Goddess. HarperCollins, 1991.

_____. Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images. University of California Press, 1982.

_____. The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization. Harper and Row, 1989.

Gleason, Judith. Oya: In Praise of the Goddess. Shambhala, 1987.

Goodrich, N.L. Priestesses. HarperCollins, 1989.

Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

Gray, Elizabeth Dodson. Sacred Dimensions of Women's Experience. Roundtable, 1988.

"The Great Goddess: Women's Spirituality," Heresies: a feminist publication on art and politics. v. 2, no. 1, issue 5, rev. ed., 1982.

Grigg, Richard. When God becomes Goddess: the Transformation of American Religion. Continuum, 1995.

Groothuis, Rebecca Merrill. Good News for Women: a Biblical Picture of Gender Equality. Baker Books, 1996.

Hall, Nor. The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine. Harper & Row, 1980.

Hamington, Maurice. Hail Mary?: the Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism. Routledge, 1995.

Haney, Eleanor Humes. Vision & Struggle: Meditations on Feminist Spirituality. Astarte Shell Press, 1989.

Harding, M. Esther. Woman's Mysteries, Ancient and Modern: a Psychological Interpretation of the Feminine Principle as Portrayed in Myth, Story, and Dreams. Harper, 1976.

Harris, Maria. Dance of the Spirit: the Seven Steps of Women's Spirituality. Bantam Books, 1991.

Harvey, Andrew and Anne Baring, eds. The Divine Feminine: Exploring the Feminine Face of God Throughout the World. Conari Press, 1996.

Hauke, Manfred. God or Goddess?: Feminist Theology: What is It?: Where Does it Lead? Ignatius Press, 1995.

Hogan, Linda, ed. Intimate Nataure : the Bond Between Women and Animals. Fawcett Columbine.

Husain, Shahrukh. The Goddess. (Living Wisdom Library)

Iglehart, Hallie. Womanspirit: a Guide to Women's Wisdom. Harper & Row, 1983.

Jakes, T.D. The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord. Putnam, 1998.
Describes how women can transform spiritual pain in their past into future accomplishment.

Jane, Richard and Jay Wurts. In Search of the Woman Warrior. Element, 1998.
Examines female heroes, both actual and mythical, through art history and literature.

Jenkins, Elizabeth B. Initiation : a Woman's Spiritual Adventure in the Heart of the Andes. Putnam, 1997.
Recounts the author's trip to Peru and into the mysteries of the ancient Andean Path.

Johnson, Buffie. Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals. Harper & Row, 1980.

Johnson, Cait and Maura D. Shaw. Celebrating the Great Mother : a Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children.
A handbook of Earth-honoring activities for parents and children.

_____. Cooking Like a Goddess. Inner Traditions, 1998.

Johnson, Elizabeth A. Friends of God and Prophets : a Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints. Continuum, 1998.

_____. She Who Is: the Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. Crossroad, 1996.

Jones, Laurie Beth. The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and For Life. Hyperion, 1996.

Jones, Noragh. Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent : Celtic Women's Spirituality. Lindisfarne Press, 1994.

Judith, Anodea & Selene Vega. The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Chakras. Crossing Press, 1993.

Katzenbach, Maria Stokes. Swimming in Trees. Divina, 1998.
Describes how one woman can be influenced by a community of other women.

Kaufer, Nelly & Carol Osmer-Newhouse. A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Renewal. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Kidd, Sue Monk. Dance of the Dissident Daughter: a Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

King, Theresa, ed. The Spiral Path: explorations in women's spirituality. St. Paul, Minn. : Yes International Publishers, 1992.
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Kinsley, David. The Goddesses' Mirror. Albany : SUNY Press, 1989.

Lapanja, Margie. Goddess in the Kitchen. Conari Press, 1998.

Laura, Judith. Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics. Research Triangle Pub., 1998.

_____. She Lives!: The Return of our Great Mother. Ashira, 1989.

Lee, Susan and Susanah Libana. You Said, What is This For, This Interest in Goddess, Prehistoric Religions? Plain View, 1985.

Leeming, David and Jake Page. Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine. Oxford University Press, 1994.
The authors' non-political intent is to present a coherent tale of the Goddess, which is a story made of many stories from around the world. Their goal is one of accessibility to the stories. "We are convinced that a salubrious future for our species (and others) lies in reconciling numerous visions and numerous ways of knowing, even what appear to be opposites." Illustrated; includes bibliography and index.

Libera, Caitlin. Creating Circles of Power & Magic: A Woman's Guide to Sacred Community. Crossing Press, 1994.

Long, Ashodel P. In a Chariot Drawn by Lions: the Search for the Female in Deity. Crossing Press, 1993.

Louden, Jennifer. The Woman's Comfort Book: a Self-nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life. HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

_____. The Woman's Retreat Book: a Guide to Restoring, Rediscovering, and Reawakening Your True Self--in a Moment, an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

Lucks, Naomi and Melene Smith. A Woman's Midlife Companion. Prima, 1997.

Luke, Helen. Woman, Earth, and Spirit: the Feminine in Symbol and Myth. Crossroad, 1985.

Lysne, Robin Heerens. Dancing Up the Moon: a Woman's Guide to Creating Traditions that Bring Sacredness to Daily Life. Conari Press, 1995.

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