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    At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
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    At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst

    By Carol L. Flinders

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    In At the Root of This Longing, Flinders identifies the four key points at which the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide—vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing 'self', resisting desire vs. reclaiming the body, and enclosure vs. freedom—and sets out to discover not only the sources of these conflicts, but how they can be reconciled. With a sense of urgency brought on by events in her own life, Flinders deals with the alienation that women have experienced not only from themselves and each other, but from the sacred. She finds inspiration in the story of fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich and her direct experience of God, in India's legendary Draupadi, who would not allow a brutal physical assault to damage her sense of personal power, as well as in Flinders's own experiences as a meditation teacher and practitioner. Flinders reveals that spirituality and feminism are not mutually exclusive at all but very much require one another.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061738210
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    At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
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    Carol L. Flinders

    Carol Lee Flinders, author of the highly acclaimed Enduring Grace and At the Root of This Longing and coauthor of the million-copy-bestselling Laurel's Kitchen, holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is a well-known speaker and teacher who has taught writing and mystical literature courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

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    • 2/5
      Flinders is first a Buddhist and then a feminist. If you share her sensibilities, you will probably enjoy this book. However, I am not a Buddhist and I have no place for meditation in my life, so the vast majority of this book was lost on me. She does have one excellent section where she critiques meditation from a feminist perspective. She then goes on to ignore her own critique and advocate meditation. But if you want a bunch of good reasons why feminists might not want to waste their time meditating, that section is worth reading.
    • 4/5
      I got this book after reading an excellent article about the author in Bitch Magazine. It's part history of women in spiritual traditions (Buddhism, convent life) and part an analysis of the relationship between a) women and spirituality and b) violence against women. This is not a straight academic work as Flinder's autobiographical experiences appear within the text, and I found this to be a wise stylistic choice as it made for a page-turning read. Reading this book is invigorating , and I hated that it had to come to an end.