The Feminine Face of God
The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
“An honest, compelling, surprising, and vastly reassuring book about the spiritual life of women . . . This landmark book is spiritual precisely because it is authentic.”—Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
With a foreword by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women have redefined traditional beliefs and rediscovered their own unique spiritual heritage—The Feminine Face of God. Anderson and Hopkins guide you through the sacred garden of:
• Childhood—seedbed of life's sacred passage
• Leaving home—finding your own inner authority
• Relationships—new perspectives on intimacy
• Spiritual practice—the importance of guidance and discipline
• Sexuality—a wild card constantly cracking open the heart
• And much more
As women enter their sacred garden and learn the art of inner listening, they acquire the tools for living, loving, and praying authentically. In The Feminine Face of God there are seeds for growth: for creating and sustaining intimacy and love in a new way; for a new understanding of sexuality; for a new vision of family, a family of choice in a community of love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The authors interviewed women across the country about ``the unfolding of the sacred in their lives.'' A Seneca elder in upstate New York tells how the stones speak to her. ``I'm just a vessel that God works through,'' says a community worker in Watts, Los Angeles, who radiates love to her ``extended family.'' Other interviewees include a massage therapist, a professor of English, a rabbi, an ex-nun, artists, a Jungian analyst, Maya Angelou and members of a feminist spiritual community in Maine. Anderson, a Zen teacher, and Hopkins, coauthor of Good-bye to Guilt , conduct workshops across the country on feminine spirituality. If their writing has a rosy New Age tinge, the in-depth personal stories they relate are insightful, and their illuminating narrative is structured like a spiritual journey (childhood, leaving home, gateways, entering the sacred garden, relationships) to assist women in defining for themselves what is sacred.
