The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine - Softcover

Sue Monk Kidd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062573020 ISBN 13: 9780062573025

Publisher: HarperOne, 2016

Synopsis

"A masterpiece of women s wisdom." Christiane Northrup, M.D.

"The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story." Publishers Weekly

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author s classic work of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction by the author.

"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening." Sue Monk Kidd

For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church.

From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women s experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life her marriage, her career, and her religion."

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Review:

A graceful account of awakening and transformation. --Library Journal"

The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically...makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story. --Publishers Weekly"

A masterpiece of womens wisdom. --Christiane Northrup, M.D. author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

From the Back Cover:

"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening." Sue Monk Kidd

For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women's experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life her marriage, her career, and her religion.

This Plus edition paperback includes a recent interview with the author conducted by the book's editor Michael Maudlin."

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062573020
• ISBN 13: 9780062573025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272