Contents -- Contributors -- Inside and Outside the Traditions: The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities -- Part I. The Politics and Poetics of the Sacred -- 1. The Goddess Returns: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of Gender, Nature, and the Sacred -- 2. Black Truth, White Fiction: The Recognition of Aboriginal Women's Rites -- 3. Between Worlds: Approaching the Indigenous Sacred in Australia -- Part II. Interrogating "Matriarchy" -- 4. "Inanna and the Huluppu Tree": An Ancient Mesopotamian Narrative of Goddess Demotion -- 5. The Sovereignty as Co-Lordship: A Contemporary Feminist Rereading of the Female Sacred in the Ulster Cycle -- Part III. Interrogating Patriarchy -- 6. Between the Tariqa and the Shari'a: The Making of the Female Self -- 7. "Merely a Love Poem"? Common Sense, Suspicion, and the Song of Songs -- 8. Mother, Maiden, Child: Gender as Performance in The Book of Margery Kempe -- 9. Helen and Hermes' Conceit -- 10. The Heavenly Woman and the Dragon: Rereadings of Revelation 12 -- 11. Working with Greek Mythology: A Journey through Images -- Conclusion -- 12. The Future of Feminist Spiritualities -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.