TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reed,Wendy
AU  - Horne,Jennifer
AU  - Adams,Mitzi
AU  - Awiakta,Marilou
AU  - Blackmarr,Amy
AU  - Chapman,Marshall
AU  - Cushman,Susan
AU  - Fennelly,Beth Ann
AU  - Fowler,Connie May
AU  - Gibson,Margaret
AU  - Johnson,Rheta Grimsley
AU  - Karr,Mary
AU  - Moffitt,Debra
AU  - Moss,Barbara Robinette
AU  - Osbey,Brenda Marie
AU  - Reiss,Valerie
AU  - Suberman,Stella
AU  - Taylor,Barbara Brown
AU  - Walker,Alice
AU  - White,Cia
TI  - Circling faith: southern women on spirituality 
SN  - 9780817386085 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL625.7 .C579 2012eb
U1  - 200.820975 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Faith
KW  - Women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Southern women
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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