Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest [Paperback]

Carol P. Christ (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0807062073 | ISBN-13: 978-0807062074 | Publication Date: September 30, 1995

Diving Deep and Surfacing reveals how the writings of Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, and Ntozake Shange can inform women's search for spiritual renewal. A new afterword testifies to the importance of spiritual autobiography for women.

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This is a work of first importance to the developing women's spirituality movement, to (feminist) theologians, and to anyone interested in religious experience. —Judith Plaskow, Religious Studies Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Beacon Press (September 30, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807062073
• ISBN-13: 978-0807062074
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,053,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Women's Spirituality, March 21, 2000

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This review is from: Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest (Paperback)

The author provides an examination of the various spiritual dimensions present in women's literature through writers such as Adrienne Rich, Ntozake Shange, and Margaret Atwood, etc. She creates a new paradigm in which women may find "spiritual renewal through new self-definition"(anything from a new phase of a woman's life or a new way she chooses to live her life). This book approaches and attempts to answer questions most of us have asked ourselves.