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Kayo Denda
Women's Studies Librarian
kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu
August 2008
Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Women and Religion:
Spirituality and Ritual

World religions include many traditions that are orally rather than textually based, grounded in ritual and embodied narrative rather than the written word. These forms of religious expression are frequently innovative, poly-symbolic, and sometimes syncretistic. Often they are practiced in critical tension with larger, text-based traditions. Listed are sample holdings available through the RU Libraries system.

Aboriginal and Native (North and South) American

Hall of mirrors : power, witchcraft, and caste in colonial Mexico / Lewis, Laura A., 2003. Text.

The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement: kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge / Dussart, Francoise, 2000. Text.

Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer / Joseph C. Winter, ed., 2000. Text.

Women and alcohol in a highland Maya town: water of hope, water of sorrow / Eber, Christine, 2000. Text.

African-Based Religions (e.g., Santeria, Vodou)

A community of witches: Contemporary neopaganism and witchcraft in the United States / Helen A. Berger, 1999. Text.

Divine utterances : the performance of Afro-Cuban Santería / Hagedorn, Katherine J., 2001. Text and sound disc.

Drawing down the moon: witches, Druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America / Margot Adler, 2006, c.1979. Text.

Embracing the witch and the goddess: Feminist ritual-makers in New Zealand / Kathryn Roundtree, 2004. Text.

The faces of the goddess / Lotte Motz, 1997. Text.

Goddess: myths of the female divine / David Leeming and Jake Page, 1994. Text.

Living in the lap of the Goddess: the feminist spirituality movement in America / Cynthia Eller, 1993. Text.

Love and the goddess / a production of Apostrophe S Productions, Inc., 1988. Videorecording.

Mama Lola : a Vodou priestess in Brooklyn / Brown, Karen McCarthy, 2001. Text.

Osun across the waters : a Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas / Murphy, Joseph M. & Mei-Mei Sanford, eds., 2001. Text.

Osun Seegesi: the elegant deity of wealth, power and femininity / Diedre L. Badejo, 1996. Text.

Spirituality and Ritual> Witchcraft (e.g. Feminist Spirituality, Goddess Worship, Neopaganism, Wicca)

Witchcraft and welfare : spritual capital and the business of magic in modern Puerto Rico / Romberg, Raquel, 2003. Text.

The sign of the witch: Modernity and the pagan revival / David Waldron, 2008. Text.

The triumph of the moon: A history of modern pagan witchcraft / Ronald Hutton, 1999. Text.

Wicca and the Christian heritage: ritual, sex, and magic / Joanne Pearson, 2007. Text.

Witchcraft and magic: Contemporary North America / edited by Helen A. Berger, 2005. Text.

Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions / James R. Lewis, 1999. Text.

Collections (includes textually and non-textually based traditions)

Feminist poetics of the sacred: creative suspicions / Devlin-Glass, Frances and Lyn McCredden, eds., 2001. Text.

Her voice, her faith: women speak on world religions / Sharma, Arvind and Katherine K. Young, eds., 2003. Text.

In sweet company: converstions with extraordinary women about living a spiritual life / Wolff, Margaret, 2002. Text.

Sacred custodians of the earth?: women, spirituality, and the environment / Low, Alaine and Soraya Tremayne, eds., 2001. Text.

Women and world religions / Peach, Lucinda Joy, ed., 2002. Text.

Witchcraft (e.g., Feminist Spirituality, Goddess Worship, Neopaganism, Wicca)

Earthly bodies, magical selves : contemporary pagans and the search for community / Sarah M. Pike, 2001. Text.

The myth of matriarchal prehistory: why an invented past won't give women a future / Eller, Cynthia, 2000. Text.

Restoring the Goddess: equal rites for modern women / Walker, Barbara G., 2000. Text.

Twilight goddess: spiritual feminism and feminine spirituality / Cleary, Thomas and Sartaz Aziz, 2000.

Voices from the pagan census : a national survey of witches and neo-pagans in the United States / Berger, Helen A., Evan A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer, 2003. Text.

The wonders of the invisible world. Being an account of the tryals of several witches lately executed in New-England / Mather, Cotton, 1862. Microform.

Subject Headings

Indians of North America - Religion
Neopaganism - rituals
Osun (Yoruba deity) - Cult - America (or Africa, West)
Transnationalism
Voodoo

Created by A. Bates, Ph.D., Religion and Society, Fall 2003
 
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