RELIGION 270 (WOMEN AND RELIGION) -- BIOGRAPHIES
 GENERAL |
BUDDHISM |
| CHRISTIANITY (CATHOLIC) |
CHRISTIANITY (ORTHODOX) |
| CHRISTIANITY (PROTESTANT) |
GODDESS RELIGION |
| HINDUISM |
ISLAM |
| JUDAISM |
METAPHYSICAL TRADITIONS |
| NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS |
THEOSOPHY |
Bancroft, Anne
Weavers of Wisdom : Women Mystics of the Twentieth Century
BL625.7 .B36 1989
Includes: Fifteen biographies of contemporary women from
many different religious traditions
Barker-Benfield, G. J.
Portraits of American Women : From Settlement to the Present
CT3260 .P73 1991
Bowden, Henry Warner
Dictionary of American Religious Biography
Ref BL72 .B68 1993
The Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography
Ref CT3202 .C66 1989
Epic Lives : One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference
Ref E185.96 .C65 1993
Melton, J. Gordon
Religious Leaders of America
Ref BL72 .M458 1991
The Norton Book of Women's Lives
CT3235 .R67 1993
Notable Black American Women
Ref E185.96 .N68 1991
Notable Hispanic American
Women
Ref E185.S75 N68 1993
Rawlinson, Andrew
The Book of Enlightened Masters
BL1032 .R38 1997
Includes biographical information on a number of Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic women.
Sharma, Arvind (Ed.)
Women Saints in World Religions
BL488 .W65 2000
Includes biographical material on a number of women including
detailed information on:
Janabai (Hinduism), Pien Tung-hsuan (Taoism), Miao-tsung
(Buddhism), Sayyida Nafisa (Islam),
Dolce of Worms (Judaism), St. Radegund (Catholicism)
Women in Praise of the Sacred : 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
PN6109.9 .W65 1994
Allione, Tsultrim
Women of Wisdom
BQ7920 .W65 1986
Includes: Nangsa Obum, Machig Lapdron, Jomo Memo, Machig
Ongjo, Drenchen Rama, A-Yu Khadro
Aoyama, Shundo
Zen Seeds : Reflections of a Female Priest
BQ9265.4 .A6913 1990
Aung San Suu Kyi
Freedom From Fear : And Other Writings
DS530 .A86 1991
Cao, Ngoc Phuong
Learning True Love : How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam
BQ944 .O2 1993
Chayat, Roko Sherry (Ed.)
Subtle Sound : the Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
BQ9288 .S78 1996
Ching, Yu-ing
Master of Love and Mercy : Cheng Yen
BQ946.E547 C55 1995
Chodron, Pema
Start Where Your Are : A Guide to Compassionate Living
BQ7805 .C49 1994
Chodron, Pema
When Things Fall Apart
BQ5410 .C434 1997
Craig, Mary
Kundun : A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama
BQ7935.B777 C73 1997
Dowman, Keith
Sky Dancer : The Secret Life of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel
BQ998.E757 S713 1996
Findly, Ellison Banks (Ed.)
Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women
BQ4570.W6 W66 2000
Includes: Voramai Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn Kabilsingh,
Achaan Ranjuan, Dipa Ma Barua, Jamin Sunim,
Myoki Sunim, Pomyong Sunim, Mae Chi Boonliang, Tokwang
Sunim, Theanvy Kuoch
Ghanananda, Swami (Ed.)
Women Saints : East and West
BL72 .W65 1979
Includes: Gopa, Gautami, Kisa Gautami, Supriya, Patachara,
Ambapali, Sanghamitra, Mi Cao Bu
Khema, Ayya
I Give You My Life : The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist Nun
BQ968.H458 I2513 1998
Mackenzie, Vicki
Cave In the Snow : A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
BQ855.T46 M32 1998x
O'Halloran, Maura Soshin
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind
BQ976.H35 A3 1994
Pachen, Ani and Donnelley, Adelaide
Sorrow Mountain : The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
DS786 .P24 2000
Pema, Jetsun
Tibet : My Story, an Autobiography
DS786 .J47 1997
Sherrill, Martha
The Buddha from Brooklyn
BQ734 .S44 2000
Includes: Catharine Burroughs (Jetsunma Akhon Lhamo)
Tsai, Kathryn Ann
Pao-Chang : Lives of the Nuns : Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from
the Fourth to Sixth Centuries
BQ634 .P3713 1994
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe
Buddhist Women Across Cultures : Realizations
BQ44570.W6 K34 1999
Includes: Aung San Suu Kyi
Bessieres, Albert
Wife, Mother, and Mystic
BX4705.T25 B43
Includes: Anna-Maria Taigi
Bouyer, Louis
Women Mystics
BV5095.A1 B6813 1993
Includes: Hadwijch of Antwerp, Teresa of Avila, Therese
of Lisieux, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Edith Stein
Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena : Passion for the Truth, Compassion for Humanity
BX2349 .C37425 1993
Catherine of Siena
The Dialog
BV5080 .C2613 1980
Cepress, Celestine (Ed.)
Sister Thea Bowman, Shooting Star : Selected Writings and Speeches
BX4705.B8113 A35 1993
Chervin, Ronda
Treasury of Women Saints
Ref BX4656 .C48 1991
Coles, Robert
Dorothy Day : A Radical Devotion
BX4705.D283 C65 1989
Coles, Robert
Simone Weil : A Modern Pilgrimage
B2430.W474 C65 1987
Conway, Timothy
Women of Power and Grace : Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our
Time
BL72 .C66 1994
Includes: Frances Cabrini, Therese Neumann
Flanagan, Sabina
Hildegard of Bingen : A Visionary Life
BX4700.H5 F54 1990
Flinders, Carol Lee
Enduring Grace : Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
BV5095.A1 F57 1993
Includes: Clare of Assisi, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Julian
of Norwich, Catherine of Genoa, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux
Galiliea, Segundo
The Life and Missionary Activities of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
BX4700.C13 G158 1996
Ghanananda, Swami (Ed.)
Women Saints : East and West
BL72 .W65 1979
Includes: Macrina, Brigit of Kildare, Mechtild of Magdeburg,
Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Mere Angelique,
Frances Cabrini
Griffin, Michael D.
God the Joy of My Life : Saint Teresa of the Andes
BX4700.T395 G75 1994
Includes: St. Teresa of the Andes (a Chilean Carmelite
nun)
Hildegard, Saint
The Book of the Rewards of Life
BV5080 .H5313 1997
Hildegard, Saint
Scivias
BV5080 .H5413 1990
Hildegard, Saint
Vision : The Music of Hildegard von Bingen [sound recording]
Media M2060 .H553 1994
Hildegard [videorecording]
Media BX4700.H5 R68 1994
Kempe, Margery
The Book of Margery Kempe : The Autobiography of a Madwoman of God
PR2007 .K413 1995
Levine, Daniel
Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism
BX1470.2 .L48 1992
Includes: Olga Caballos, Susanna Madrid
Markus, Gilbert
The Radical Tradition : Revolutionary Saints in the Battle for Justice and
Human Rights
BX4655.2 .R33 1993
Includes: Agnes, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila,
Marguerite d'Youville
Marlow, Joan
The Great Women
HQ1123 .M37 1981
Includes: Joan of Arc, Francesca Cabrini, Dorothy Day,
Simone Weil
Newman, Barbara
Sister of Wisdom : St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine
BX4700.H5 N49 1989
Newman, Barbara (Ed.)
Voice of the Living Light : Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
BX4700.H5 V65 1998
Nies, Judith
Seven Women : Portraits from the American Radical Tradition
HQ1412 .N53 1977
Includes: Dorothy Day
O'Brien, Elmer
Varieties of Mystic Experience : An Anthology and Interpretation
BV5058.2 .O25 1965
Includes: Mechtild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Siena,
Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Genoa, Teresa of Avila, Marie of the Incarnation
Petrement, Simone
Simone Weil : A Life
B2430.W474 P4613
Petroff, Elizabeth
Body and Soul : Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism
BV5077.E85 P48 1994
Singh, Darshan
Streams of Nectar : Lives, Poetry and Teachings of Saints and Mystics
BP605.R335 S5 1993
Includes: Teresa of Avila
Spink, Kathryn
The Miracle of Love : Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Missionaries of Charity,
and Her Co-Workers
BX4406.5.Z8 S64
Therese of Lisieux
Story of a Soul : The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
BX4700.T5 A5 1976
Therese of Lisieux
Therese of Lisieux : A Discovery of Love
BX4700.T5 T47 1992
Vecsey, Christopher
The Paths of Kateri's Kin
E98.R3 V444 1997
Includes: Kateri Tekakwitha
Weaver, Mary Jo
New Catholic Women : A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
BX2347.8.W6 W42 1986
Williams, Rowan
Teresa of Avila
BX4700.T4 W54 1990
Conway, Timothy
Women of Power and Grace : Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our
Time
BL72 .C66 1994
Includes: Pelagia Ivanova, Maria Skobtsova
Gage, Nicholas
Eleni
CT1118.G32 G33 1983
Topping, Eva Catafyglotu
Saints and Sisterhood : The Lives of Forty-Eight Holy Women
Ref BX393 .T97 1990
Armstrong, Christopher J.R.
Evelyn Underhill, 1875-1941 : An Introduction to Her Life and Writings
BV5095.U5 A75 1976
Bacon, Margaret Hope (Ed.)
Wilt Thou Go On My Errand? : Three Eighteenth Century Journals of Quaker
Women Ministers
BX7793 .W55 1994
Includes: Susanna Morris, Elizabeth Hudson, Ann Moore
Battis, Emery John
Saints and Sectaries : Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony
F67 .H907
Beasley, Norman
Mary Baker Eddy
BX6995 .B4
Bernard, Jacqueline
Journey Toward Freedom : The Story of Sojourner Truth
E185.97.T8 B47 1990
Bradford, Sarah H.
Harriet Tubman : The Moses of Her People
E444.T82 B73 1994
Brown, Earl Kent
Women of Mr. Wesley's Methodism
BX8493 .B7 1983
Includes: Lady Maxwell Darcy, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher,
Elizabeth Ritchie Mortimer, Sarah Crosby, Selina (Countess of Huntington),
Hester Ann Roe Rogers
Brown, Elizabeth Potts
Witnesses for Change : Quaker Women Over Three Centuries
BX7748.W64 W58 1989
Campion, Nardi Reeder
Mother Ann Lee : Morning Star of the Shakers
BX9793.L4 C355 1990
Cole, Charles E. (Ed.)
Something More Than Human : Biographies of Leaders in American Methodist
Higher Education
BX8421 .S653 1986
Includes: Belle Harris Bennett, Lucy Rider Meyer, Mary
McLeod Bethune, Isabella Thoburn
Greene, Dana
Evelyn Underhill : Artist of the Infinite Life
BX5199.U53 G74 1990
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti
Visions of Glory : A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses
BX8525.7 .H37
Hearn, Virginia
Our Struggle to Serve : The Stories of Fifteen Evangelical Women
BR1713 .O97
Includes: Virginia Hearn, Lareta Halteman Finger, Joyce
Gladwell, Mildred Maythaler, Judith Ann Criag Piper, Lorraine Peters, Frances
Adeney, Sharon Gallegher, Ruth A. Schmidt, Anne Eggebroten, Catherine Kroeger,
Katie Funk Wiebe, Joyce Shutt, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Lois C. Andersen
Hedrick, Joan D.
Harriet Beecher Stowe : A Life
PS2956 .H43 1994
Hunter, Jane
The Gospel of Gentility : American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century
China
BV3415.2 .H86 1984
Mabee, Carleton
Sojourner Truth : Slave, Prophet, Legend
E185.97.T8 M32 1993
Marlow, Joan
The Great Women
HQ1123 .M37 1981
Includes: Harriet Tubman, Mary Baker Eddy
Marshall, Catherine
Beyond Ourselves
BV4501.2 .M364 1994
Minis, Margaret D.
I Don't Mind Suffering As Long As It Doesn't Hurt
BT732.7 .M55 1995
Orcutt, William Dana
Mary Baker Eddy and Her Books
BX6995 .O7
Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim : Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
JX1962.P35 A36 1991
Peel, Robert
Mary Baker Eddy : The Years of Discovery
BX6995 .P4
Plimpton, Ruth Talbot
Mary Dyer : Biography of a Rebel Quaker
BX7795.D84 P57 1994
Powell, Lyman P.
Mary Baker Eddy : A Life Size Portrait
BX6995 .P75
Ramsay, Emily Mary
Christian Science and Its Discoverer
BX6995 .R3 1935
Spiritual Narratives
The Schomberg Library of 19th Century Black Women Writers
PS509.N4 S3 v.3
Includes: Jarena Lee, Maria W. Stewart, Julia A. J. Foote,
Virginia W. Broughton
Stenhouse, Mrs. T. B. H.
"Tell It All" : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
BX8641 .S75 1875
Stoltzfus, Louise
Amish Women : Lives and Stories
F157.L2 S77 1994
Thomas, Lately
Storming Heaven : The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple
McPherson
BX7990.I68 M33
Ward, Mae Yoho
The Seeking Heart : The Prayer Journal of Mae Yoho Ward
BX7343.W37 A37 1985
"Women's Rightful Place" : Women in United Methodist History
BV639.W7 W6 1980
Worrall, Ambrose A.
The Gift of Healing
BT732.4 .W6
Includes: Olga Worrall
Christ, Carol P.
Odyssey With the Goddess : A Spiritual Quest in Crete
BL73.C395 A3 1995
Noble, Vicki
Shakti Woman : Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World : The New Female Shamanism
BL625.7 .N63 1991
Rae Beth
Lamp of the Goddess : Lives and Teachings of a Priestess
BP605.F44 B48 1995
Adilakshmi
The Mother
BP610.M44 A35 1995
Includes: Mother Meera
Amritanandamayi, Mata
For My Children : Selected Teachings of Mata Amritanadamayi
BL1146.A486 F6 1994
Amritanandamayi, Mata
Immortal Light = Amrita Jyoti : Advice to Householders
BL1146.A486 A48 1994
Amritasvarupananda, Swami
Mata Amritanandamayi : Her Life and Experiences of Her Devotees
BL1175.A486 A47 1988
Conway, Timothy
Women of Power and Grace : Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our
Time
BL72 .C66 1994
Includes: Anandamayi Ma, Anasuya Devi, Syama Mataji,
Mata Amritanandamayi (Ammachi)
A Day With Mother [videorecording]
BL1175.A486 D39 1991
Includes: Mata Amritanandamayi (Ammachi)
Falk, Nancy Auer
Unspoken Worlds : Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures
BL458 .U57 1980
Includes: Jnananda Saraswati
Ghanananda, Swami (Ed.)
Women Saints : East and West
BL72 .W65 1979
Includes: Avvaiyar, Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Andal, Akka Mahadevi,
Lalleswari of Kashmir, Mirabai, Bahinabai, Gauribai, Tarigonda, Benkamamba,
Sarada Devi
Goodman, Martin
In Search of the Divine Mother : The Mystery of Mother Meera
BL73.M44 G66 1998
The Graceful Guru : Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States
BL1171 .G73 2004
Includes: Sita Devi, Gauri Ma, Anandamayi Ma, Jayashri
Ma, Mother Meera, Shree Ma, Ammachi, Gurumayi
Harvey, Andrew
Hidden Journey
BL73.H37 A3 1991
Includes: Mother Meera
Johnsen, Linda
Daughters of the Goddess : The Women Saints of India
BL1241.44 .L56 1994
Includes: Sri Ma of Kamakhya, Anandamayi Ma, Anandi Ma,
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Ma Yoga Bhakti, Mata Amritanandamayi (Ammachi)
Meera, Mother
Answers
BP610 .M4215 1991
Nikhilananda, Swami
Holy Mother : Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi
BL1175.S36 N44 1982
Singh, Darshan
Streams of Nectar : Lives, Poetry, and Teachings of Saints and Mystics
BP605.R335 S5 1993
Includes: Mira Bai, Sahjo Bai, Daya Bai
Atiya, Nayra
Khul-Khaal : Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories
HQ1793 .A87 1982
Barnes, Virginia Lee
Aman : The Story of a Somali Girl
CT2208.A43 B37 1994
Bhutto, Benazir
Daughter of the East
DS385.B4 B4 1989
Conway, Timothy
Women of Power and Grace : Nine Astonishing, Inspiring Luminaries of Our
Time
BL72 .C66 1994
Includes: Hazrat Babajan
al-Din Attar, Farid
Muslim Saints and Mystics
BP189.4 .F323 1966
Includes: Rabe'ah al-Adawiya
Friedl, Erika
Women of Deh Koh : Lives in an Iranian Village
HQ1735.2 .F75 1989
Ghanananda, Swami, (Ed.)
Women Saints : East and West
BL72 .W65 1979
Includes: Rabi'a (Rabe'ah al-Adawiya)
Mernissi, Fatima
Dreams of Trespass : Tales of a Harem Girlhood
CT2678.M47 A3 1994
Messaoudi, Khalida
Unbowed : An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism
DT295.5 .M4713 1998
Nurbakhsh, Javad
Sufi Women
BP189.4 .N87 1990
Includes short biographies of many Islamic women and
long biographies of: Rabe'ah al-Adawiya, Rabe'ah of Syria, Tohfah, Sha'wana,
Mama Esmat
Sasson, Jean
Princess Sultana's Daughters
HQ1730 .S274 1994
Shepherd, Kevin R. D.
A Sufi Matriarch : Hazrat Babajan
BP80.G84 S58 1986
Singh, Darshan
Streams of Nectar : Lives, Poetry, and Teachings of Saints and Mystics
BP605.R335 S5 1993
Includes: Rabia Basri (Rabe'ah al-Adawiya)
Women of Sufism
BP189.4 .W66 2003
Includes writings and stories of women who follow the path of Islamic mysticism.
Broner, E. M.
The Telling : The Story of a Group of Jewish Women Who Journey to Spirituality
Through Community and Ceremony
BM729.W6 B75 1993
Daniel, Ruby
Ruby of Cochin : An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers
DS135.I63 D363 1995
Deutsch, Nathaniel
The Maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish Holy Woman and Her World
BM755.W395 D48 2003
Includes: Werbermacher, Chana Rachel (1815-1892)
Frank, Anne
The Diary of a Young Girl
D810.J4 F715
Ghanananda, Swami (Ed.)
Women Saints : East and West
BL72 .W65 1979
Includes: Henrietta Szold
Gies, Miep
Anne Frank Remembered : The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank
Family
DS135.N5 A536 1987
Gluck, Sherma Berger
An American Feminist in Palestine : The Intifada Years
DS119.75 .G58 1994
Landrum, Gene N.
Profiles of Female Genius : Thirteen Creative Women Who Changed the World
HD6054 .L36 1994
Includes: Golda Meir
Lindwer, Willy
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
DS135.N6 F734413 1991
Marlow, Jean
The Great Women
HQ1123 .M37 1981
Includes: Golda Meir, Henrietta Szold
Meir, Golda
My Life
DS126.6.M5 M51
Moskowitz, Faye
And the Bridge is Love : Life Stories
E184.J5 M74 1991
Ochs, Vanessa L.
Words on Fire : One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred
BM755.O24 A3 1990
Orfuli, Stephanie
A Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic
DS135.G5 O746 1993
Roth, Cecil
Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi
DS124 .R63 1992
Schneider, Bronka
Exile : A Memoir of 1939
D804.196 .S34 1998
Szold, Henrietta
Lost Love : The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold
E184.J5 S9613 1997
Young, Bette Roth
Emma Lazarus In Her World : Life and Letters
PS2234 .Y68 1995
Grant, Joan
Far Memory
PR6013.R2737 Z52 1985
Richardson, Alan
The Magical Life of Dion Fortune
BF1408.2.F6 R53
Abelar, Taisha
The Sorcerer's Crossing
BF1999 .A188 1992
Allen, Paula
Grandmothers of the Light
E98.W8 A439 1991
Benedek, Emily
Beyond the Four Corners of the World : a Navajo Woman's Journey
E99.N3 B452 1995
Blackman, Margaret B.
Sadie Brower Neakok, an Inupiaq Woman
E99.E7 N363 1989
Brave Bird, Mary
Ohitika Woman
E99.B8 B733 1994
Crow Dog, Mary
Lakota Woman
E99.D1 C833 1991
Hungry Wolf, Beverly
The Ways of My Grandmothers
E99.S54 H864
Kelley, Jane Holden
Yaqui Women : Contemporary Life Histories
E99.Y3 K44 1991
Includes: Dominga Tava, Chepa Moreno, Dominga Ramirez,
Antonia Valenzuela
Lake, Tela Star Hawk
Hawk Woman Dancing With the Moon
E99.Y97 L35 1996
Medicine Eagle, Brooke
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing
RZ408.M43 A3 1991
Moran, Bridget
Stoney Creek Woman : The Story of Mary John
E99.T17 J63 1988
Mountain Wolf Woman
Mountain Wolf Woman, sister of Crashing Thunder : The Autobiography of a
Winnebago Indian
E90.M6 A3
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove : A Salishan Autobiography
E99.S21 M68 1990
Sams, Jamie
Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours
E99.S3 S16 1991
Thunder, Mary Elizabeth
Thunder's Grace : Walking the Road of Visions With My Lakota Grandmother
E99.D1 T533 1995
Underhill, Ruth
Papago Woman
E99.P25 U5 1979
Vecsey, Christopher
The Paths of Kateri's Kin
E98.R3 V444 1997
Includes: Kateri Tekakwitha
Voget, Fred W.
They Call Me Agnes : A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail
Deernose
E99.C92 D448 1995
Bailey, Alice
The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey
BF1997.B35 B35
Meade, Marion
Madame Blavatsky : The Woman Behind the Myth
BP585.B6 M42 1980
Murphet, Howard
When Daylight Comes : Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
BP585.B6 M87
Purucker, G.
H. P. Blavatsky : The Mystery
BP585.B6 P87