Carol P. Christ is an Adjunct Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, is a Rockefeller Fellow, and has taught at multiple prestigious universities. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale in Religious Studies and a B. A. from Stanford with honors in Humanities. She has written multiple books on women and spirituality. Source: www.ciis.edu.

The reviewer for "Christian Century," said of this book, "Christ underscores the connections between women's spiritual quest and the social quest for wholeness. Her sensitively written study is one of the most articulate and cogent representations of a growing literature of a feminist understanding of the sacred which functions as a religion.