Includes bibliographical references and index.

Following naked dancing and long dreaming / Chung Hyun Kyung -- Border passage: from Cairo to America, a woman's journey / Leila Ahmed -- White women's Christ and Black women's Jesus / Jacquelyn Grant -- Mediations of the spirit: Native American religious traditions and the ethics of representation / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Mothers and daughters, writers and fighters / Kwok Pui-lan -- Forged under the sun/Forjada bajo el sol: the life of María Elena Lucas / Fran Leeper Buss -- Challah for the Queen of Heaven / Ryiah Lilith -- Expressing anger at God / Carol P. Christ -- Church and the second sex / Mary Daly -- Violence against women in the historical Christian West and in North American secular culture: the visual and textual evidence / Margaret Miles -- "Take my yoke upon you": the role of the church in the oppression of African-American women / Frances E. Wood -- Falling off the tightrope onto a bed of feathers / Darice Jones -- Issue of woman-man equality in the Islamic tradition / Riffat Hassan -- "Jihād fī sabīl Allah": a Muslim woman's faith journey from struggle to struggle to struggle / Riffat Hassan -- Why women need the Goddess / Carol P. Christ -- Coming of Lilith / Judith Plaskow -- From riot grrl to Yeshiva girl, or how I became my own damn Rabbi / Jennifer Bleyer -- Coatlicue's rules: advice from an Aztec goddess / Pat Mora -- Goddess as metaphoric image / Nelle Morton -- Guadalupe the sex goddess / Sandra Cisneros -- Rev. Irene Monroe / Gary David Comstock -- Toward a new theology of sexuality / Judith Plaskow -- Good mother: from Gaia to Gilead / Ellen Cronan Rose -- Gaia and God: an ecofeminist theology of earth healing / Rosemary Radford Ruether.