All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality (Fire Ant Books)
Editors Reed and Horne maintain that while not every southerner is religious, every southerner has been shaped by religion in some way. As evidence of the ongoing presence of religion in the South, they cite statistics indicating that between 60 and 70 percent of southerners identify as Christian (compared with, say, 32 percent in Oregon). This slim but vibrant collection presents the voices and the reflections of southern women, ranging from Catholic to Baptist, and Jewish to Buddhist, on spirituality and organized religion. Since Reed and Horne asked several top-notch authors to contribute, Frances Mayes and Barbara Kingsolver each write about the importance of nature and place in their lives, Dorothy Allison about the transformative power of art, and Sena Jeter Naslund comments about a period of her life--from 9 to 19--when she felt intensely Christian. Perhaps most impressive of all is Sue Monk Kidd on what it means to be spiritualas a woman.June SawyersCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.