At the root of this longing
Subtitle: reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst
By: Carol Lee Flinders
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780062513144; 9780062513151
Subjects: Feminist spirituality; Case studies; Religious life; Biography; Women
Description: In this exploration of the apparent conflicts and tensions between feminism and spirituality, Flinders reveals how she found that a life of meaning, self-knowledge, and freedom absolutely depends on both.
Notes: "A Tree clause book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: Linda by Candlelight --; title: Julian's Visions --; title: Synchronicities --; title: "To Burn a Little and Spill a Little": The Early Years --; title: "Be Like the Banyan Tree": Harder Than It Sounds --; title: First You Have to Admit There's a Problem --; title: Four Tracks into a Wilderness: Revelations of a Sort --; title: Sacred Precepts, or the Terms of Our Subordination? --; title: Stone by Stone: Laying Down the Law of the Fathers --; title: Cracks in the Walls: Resisting Patriarchy --; title: The House Made of Dawn: Reinhabiting the Sacred Feminine --; title: To Construct and Inhabit Our Airy Spaces --; title: Magic Circles: Island Time --; title: Draupadi's Dance --; title: Hindu Myth and Petaluma Reality --; title: A War Against Women --; title: A Circle of Beauty, a Wall of Strength --; title: The Endless Sari --; title: Draupadi's Daughters --; title: The Girls' Movement: Feminism Reawakening --; title: Our Daughters, Our Selves --; title: Two Halves of One Reality.