harlene Spretnak is the author of several books that proposed a "map of the terrain" and an engagement with various emergent social movements, intellectual orientations, and largely unexplored subjects. She has helped to create an eco-social frame of reference and vision in the areas of social criticism, cultural history, philosophy, and religion and spirituality. Since the mid-1980s, all of her books have been an engagement with modernity, its discontents, and the corrective efforts that are arising. She is a co-founder of the Green Party movement in the United States and is a professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a graduate institute in San Francisco. In 2006 Charlene Spretnak was named by the British government's Environment Department as one of the "100 Eco-Heroes of All Time."

In addition to many articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews, she has written the following books:

• Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her ReEmergence in the Modern Church (2004)
• The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World (1997)
• States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning the the Postmodern Age (1991)
• The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics (coauthor; 1984);
• The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement (editor; 1982); and
• Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths (1978)

She is currently writing a book on the eco-social, or Green, pragmatic solutions to the crises of modernity that are moving successfully into the mainstream. She is also working on a book about the spiritual dimensions of modern and contemporary art. Readers interested in Charlene Spretnak's books on women and religion may wish to view her weekly postings at www.womenandspirituality.net; click on Blog and, under Categories, click on CS's name.