Circling faith  southern women on spirituality /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne. 
 - Tuscaloosa :  University of Alabama Press,  c2012. 
 - 1 online resource (248 p.) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780817386085 (electronic bk.) 0817386084 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Faith.<br/>Women--Religious life--Southern States.<br/>Spirituality.<br/>Women authors--Religious life.<br/>Faith.<br/>Southern women--Religious life.<br/>Spirituality.<br/>Women authors--Religious life.<br/>Religion.<br/>RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL625.7  / .C579 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>200.820975