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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen Fiona Maddocks Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her c… OL11609492W
Every good and perfect gift Every good and perfect gift Brenda Jernigan "Every Good and Perfect Gift is set in a small town in North Carolina, a place that is comfortable with tradition, including the traditional image of God. On a sultry Sunday morning when ten-year-old… OL16786428W
Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Kelly Pemberton This work combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both co… OL20952680W
Autobiography of Madame Guyon Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon,Marie-Louise Gondal Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually desponde… OL2298249W
Confessions of a closet mystic Confessions of a closet mystic Julia Turner Hultgren "Confessions of a Closet Mystic is the story of how Julia Turner Hultgren, MSW, refused to listen to Jesus when he first appeared to her while she was meditating in her musty smelling basement, becau… OL24256870W
Enduring grace Enduring grace Carol Flinders Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mysticsKnown to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks … OL2670968W