Product Description: "For centuries the Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila has fascinated anyone interested in a life lived out of the depths of the human spirit. With warm and lively prose, Mary Jo Weaver tells not only Teresa's story but also how Teresa's ideals are lived by contemporary Carmelite nuns in Indianapolis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of personal essays argues that, despite the Catholic Church's anti-woman teachings, it is possible to be both Catholic and feminist, drawing upon the intimate writings of female mystics

Product Description: What's Left? is the most comprehensive study to date of liberal American Catholics in the generation following the second Vatican council (1962-65). The main features of liberal American Catholicism--feminist theology and practice, contested issues of sexual conduct, new social locations of academic theology, liturgy, spirituality, ministry, race and ethnicity, and public Catholicism--are presented here in their historical and social contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book should be of interest to introductory courses in Christianity, Christian history and general religion.

Product Description: "Weaver fills an important gap in women's studies through her investigation of the intersection of the women's movement with the lives of contemporary Roman Catholic women." -- Iris"Mary Jo Weaver has charted the course of this new consciousness among Roman Catholic women...read more

Product Description: "Being Right is a significant book and a good read for anyone seriously interested in contemporary American religion." -- Nova Religio"It will be very useful to historians, challenging to theologians and indispensable to anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of Catholic presence in the contemporary United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)