Resources

Suggested Reading Resources: Beijing Circles
The following books are recommended for purchase. Most may be obtained through the Cathedral Bookstore online at http://www.cathedralbookstore.com

  • Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy by Mercy Amba Oduyoye (Orbis Books, 1997).
  • Flinders 1998: Carol Lee Flinders. At the Heart of this Longing: Reconciling A Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, New York: Harper Collins.
  • Kidd 1996: Sue Monk Kidd. Dance of the Dissident Daughter: Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine, New York: Ballantine.
  • Myers 2001: Ched Myers. The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics, Washington.
  • Paola Gianturco, Women Who Light The Dark, Brooklyn: Power House, 2007.
  • Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World, Boston: Conari, 1999.
  • Trading Women's Health and Rights? Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies edited by Caren Grown, Elissa Braunstein and Anju Malhotra (Zed Books, 2006).
Reading list:
  • Flinders 1993: Carol Lee Flinders. Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, New York: Harper Collins.
  • Freire 1970: Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. New York : Seabury Press. (New York: Continuum, 2007.)
  • Le Guin 1989: Ursula Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, New York: Grove.
  • Palmer 1999: Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. Jossey-Bass.
  • Teasdale 1999: Wayne Teasdale. “Mysticism as the Crossing of Ultimate Boundaries A Theological Reflection” http://www.csp.org/experience/docs/teasdale-mysticism.html.  May 14, 2008.
  • Teasdale 1999: Wayne Teasdale, “The Interspiritual Age: Practical Mysticism for the Third Millennium” http://www.csp.org/experience/docs/teasdale-interspiritual.html .  May 14, 2008.
  • Thich Nhat Hanh 1995: Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, New York: Riverhead Books.
  • Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner, The Faith Club, NY: Simon and Shuster, 2006.
  • Wayne Muller, How Then Shall We Live, NY: Bantam, 1996.
  • A Tradition That Has No Name: Women's Ways Of Leading, NY: Basic Books, 1997 




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