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Ladataan... At the root of this longing : reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst (vuoden 1998 painos)Tekijä: Carol Flinders
TeostiedotAt the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst (tekijä: Carol Lee Flinders)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Reading Flinders reminds me that years ago I considered doing a graduate degree in Women's Studies. It makes me aware of what a very great trust it is to have an almost grown up girl child in my keeping. And I empathize, as a spiritually active woman, in Flinder's dilemna Flinders is first a Buddhist and then a feminist. If you share her sensibilities, you will probably enjoy this book. However, I am not a Buddhist and I have no place for meditation in my life, so the vast majority of this book was lost on me. She does have one excellent section where she critiques meditation from a feminist perspective. She then goes on to ignore her own critique and advocate meditation. But if you want a bunch of good reasons why feminists might not want to waste their time meditating, that section is worth reading. For me reading Carol Lee Flinders is having someone say, "Yes. I understand your spiritual struggles." In this book, Flinders documents her struggle to reconcile her deep needs for spirituality rooted in traditional religion and her strong feminist moorings. For help she looks to (among others) Julian of Norwich and Saint Catherine of Siena. She gives us a good women's history of spirituality, showing us how patriarchy built a wall around womankind and giving hope for how the wall may be removed and allow women to see the divine within themselves. I got this book after reading an excellent article about the author in Bitch Magazine. It's part history of women in spiritual traditions (Buddhism, convent life) and part an analysis of the relationship between a) women and spirituality and b) violence against women. This is not a straight academic work as Flinder's autobiographical experiences appear within the text, and I found this to be a wise stylistic choice as it made for a page-turning read. Reading this book is invigorating , and I hated that it had to come to an end. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
In At the Root of This Longing, Flinders identifies the four key points at which the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide--vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing 'self', resisting desire vs. reclaiming the body, and enclosure vs. freedom--and sets out to discover not only the sources of these conflicts, but how they can be reconciled. With a sense of urgency brought on by events in her own life, Flinders deals with the alienation that women have experienced not only from themselves and each other, but from the sacred. She finds inspiration in the story of fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich and her direct experience of God, in India's legendary Draupadi, who would not allow a brutal physical assault to damage her sense of personal power, as well as in Flinders's own experiences as a meditation teacher and practitioner. Flinders reveals that spirituality and feminism are not mutually exclusive at all but very much require one another. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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