Circling faith [electronic resource] : southern women on spirituality / edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 9780817386085 (electronic bk.)
- 0817386084 (electronic bk.)
- 200.820975
- BL625.7 .C579 2012eb
Acknowledgments; A Special Note on Barbara Robinette Moss (1954-2009) -- Duane DeRaad; Introduction: A Faith of Verbs; I. Seeking Faith in Motion and Stillness; Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer -- Mary Karr; Pilgrimage -- Debra Moffitt; Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow -- Susan Cushman; II. Keeping Faith of Our Mothers; Taking Terroir on Faith -- Beth Ann Fennelly; Amazons in Appalachia -- Marilou Awiakta; Why We Can't Talk to You About Voodoo -- Brenda Marie Osbey; III. Embodying Faith in the Flesh; Magic -- Amy Blackmarr; Going to Church: A Sartorial Odyssey -- Marshall Chapman.
What the Body Knows -- Barbara Brown TaylorThe Queen of Hearts -- Margaret Gibson; IV. Questioning Life Without Faith?; Rapture on Hold -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson; The Only Jews in Town -- Stella Suberman; A Purposeful Life -- Mitzi Adams; V. Transforming Faith in Change; A Fairy Tale: The Prodigal Daughter Returns -- Connie May Fowler; Alice Walker Calls God "Mama": An Interview with Alice -- Valerie Reiss; Signs of Faith -- Barbara Robinette Moss; What We Will Call Nature -- Cia White; Contributors; Permissions.
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Mary Karr, in & ldquo;Facing Altars, & rdquo; describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her to a similar solace in prayer. In & ldquo;Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow, & rdquo; Susan Cushman recounts how her dissatisfaction with a Presbyterian upbringing led her to hold her own worship services at home and eventually to join the Eastern Orthodox Church. & ldquo;Magic & rdquo; by Amy Blackmarr depicts.
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