Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium

Ursula King is director of the Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol.

• Contents: Introduction: Spirituality, Society, and the Millennium -- Wasteland, Wilderness, or New Vision?; Interpreting Texts and Traditions; Female Godlanguage in Christian Spirituality; The Body as Meditative Locus in the Revelations of Julian of Norwich; Spirituality, Sexuality and Embodiment; From Transgression to Transformation: The Creative Potential of Gay Spiritualities for the New Millennium; Masculine Spirituality and Addiction: A Personal Journey; The Turn to Life in Contemporary Religion and Spirituality; The Biological Basis of Spiritual Awareness; Spirituality and Healing in a Scientific Age; Spiritual Development: Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?; Learning to Live: Spiritual Development in Higher Education; Everything that Rises must Converge': Some Ideas for an Ethical Spirituality and a Spiritually-Enriched Ethic; Praxis Prior to Doctrine: New Models of Relationship in Contemporary Spirituality; From Tree to Rhizome: Pagan Spirituality, Science and Resistance in the New Millennium; Liberating Palestinian Theology -- the Need for a Contextual Spirituality; The Face of God in Every Generation: Jewish Feminist, Spirituality and the Legend of the Thirty-Six Hidden Saints; Mind, Body, Spirit -- the New Millennial Age?; Index.