In conversation with the Bible and Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel The Secret Life of Bees (Penguin Books, 2003), Unveiling the Secret Life of Bees explores the embodiments of women, feminine power, relationships, and the importance of women in the life of the church. It looks at the roles of women in the Bible and how those roles are defined or redefined in The Secret Life of Bees, expanding our concepts of the "Divine mother," earthly mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, and the "queen bee." Along the way, we encounter remembrance, forgiveness, reconciliation, liberation, community, rituals, the feminine face of God, and the important role women play in one another's lives.
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Does popular fiction have anything to teach us about what it means to live as Christians? Can we gain insights into who we are as children of God from a novel? In the Popular Insights series, novels are more than entertainment. They are an entry into theological discussions, bible and church history, scripture, and new understandings of ourselves and how we live in community. Written for individual reflection or group discussion, Popular Insights draws on today’s most popular novels to explore biblical truths, popular beliefs, and personal faith.
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I bought this book because I hoped to get a feminist take on the Secret Life of Bees--one of the best books I have ever read. My reading group chose the Secret Life of Bees to read one month, but I had already read it a couple of years before so I thought this book might provide a nice refresher, as well as a different angle on that great book. I did not gather from the description of this book that it was written from a Christian perspective, so I was disappointed when I started to read it and realized that it was. The Christian viewpoint did not interest me, but if you are interested in the Christian symbolism in this book, it should make for a good read.
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Daughters of Mary, Secret Life of Bees, Old Testament, New Testament, South Carolina, Mother of God, Our Lady of Chains, Secret Lift, African American, New York, Queen Esther, Secret Lilt, Feast of the Assumption, Holy Spirit, San Francisco, Chalice Press, Deborah Fontanel Owens, John the Baptist, King Ahasuerus, While Lily New!
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Daughters of Mary, Secret Life of Bees, Old Testament, New Testament, South Carolina, Mother of God, Our Lady of Chains, Secret Lift, African American, New York, Queen Esther, Secret Lilt, Feast of the Assumption, Holy Spirit, San Francisco, Chalice Press, Deborah Fontanel Owens, John the Baptist, King Ahasuerus, While Lily New!
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- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd on page 20, and page 67
- Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford on page 24
- In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins by Elisabeth Fiorenza on page 100
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on page 53
- God and Rhetoric of Sexuality (Overtures to Biblical Theology) by Phyllis Trible on page 100
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