ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the renewed interest in aspects of religiosity at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is important to explore the realms of religiosity reopened by women in the last decades of the twentieth century. It examines ways in which aboriginal women in particular have addressed themes like birth, death, and rebirth and shows how their conceptualizations of fecundity and replenishment contribute to contemporary notions of spirituality. The chapter argues that mutuality of relations, trust, and compassion are essential in the process of coming to terms with new formulations of human culture that view "the human" as holistically connected with both the past and future of the planet. Feminist anthropologists and theologians have led the search for new religiosity and spirituality. Sensitive presence, sensual empowerment and what has been called the feminine, are qualities which can make difference in the spirituality of the new millennium.
