The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother [Paperback]

Meinrad Craighead (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages
• Publisher: Paulist Pr; First Edition edition (March 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809127164
• ISBN-13: 978-0809127160
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars images of God too idiosyncratic not to be real, gorgeous., August 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother (Paperback)

At fifteen, when I found this book, it changed my life. I did not know then about women's spirituality movements. I have since become aquainted, thrilled, disenchanted, and reaquainted. Through it all this book has been a touchstone. Craighead tells stories and images of God which are too idiosyncratic to have been manufactured to cater to a faddish movement. They are images of a journey, honestley, skillfully, and beautifully wrought, and I would reccomend them to any seeker of God. Craighead wrote that her belief in God the Mother flows like a river beneath her (other? churched) Christianity, nourishing it. This is a powerful image of how one's personal experience of God, and the communal, ritualized expression of that experience need not be reconciled, but can both be cherished. Buy this book. Buy this book for your thirteen year old, who is searching. Buy it at your local independant bookstore. Ciao.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a book of beautiful and moving paintings and text, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother (Paperback)

This book reproduces 41 paintings in full color, full page with white borders. It also includes a black and white photo of the artist on the back cover. The text is by the artist and provides insight in into the paintings' meanings, both personal and on a universal level. In the form of prose-poems, the ideas expressed are full of touching memories especially those of the artist's grandmother. The paintings are full of female imagery, multi-cultural Goddess symbols, and also Roman Catholic imagery. It is a wonderful book for lovers of the Goddess (or God the Mother) but it is not for the Christian weary. The paper cover is a little flimsy for a book of this size, but the wealth of color reproductions make this book a good value.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, March 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother (Paperback)

I found the paintings to be very inspirational. They are very earthy and feminine. I also liked the accompanying poems.