Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Wisdom Through the Ages - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0062517023 ISBN 13: 9780062517029

Casa editrice: Harperone, 2002

Riassunto

Celebrating women's spiritual experiences, a lavish and inspiring volume, filled with both ancient and modern poetry, prayers, chants, meditations, and writings, from the world's leading female sages and saints, features contributions from a vast array of cultures and diverse voices, including Greek poet Sappho, Sufi poet Rabia, Julian of Norwich, and Sojourner Truth.

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"A magnificent resource that not only informs but inspires and encourages us to find our own wisdom, our own voice." (Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation and The Dance)

"An always-brimming well of empowering knowledge...the full range of long-silenced voices of the sacred feminine singing together." (Eryk Hanut, author of The Road to Guadalupe and Director of the San Francisco Center for the Divine Feminine)

"These visions comprise an unbroken thread woven through five millenia and remain vibrant to this day." (Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine, Healing Words, and Healing Beyond the Body)

"This book is well named--the wisdom emanating from the sacred visions within is truly essential wisdom for our times." (Matthew Fox, president, University of Creation Spirituality, author of Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Original Blessing and One River, Many Wells)

"Sacred Voices is ... the voices of women, ancient and modern, that our hearts have been longing to hear." (Neil Douglas-Klotz, author of Prayers of the Cosmos and The Hidden Gospel)

"A brilliant marriage of scholarship and love... a breathtaking chorus of women's voices, celebrating the full range of female experience." (Dorothy Walters, Ph.D., author, Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey and Unmasking the Rose: An Account of a Kundalini Initiation.)

“This superb collection of life-affirming writings sounds a call that men and women alike need to hear.” (K. Lauren de Boer, Executive Editor, EarthLight Journal)

“A much-needed collection of women’s wisdom--vibrant, expressive, and vital.” (Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul)

“It is good to hear these blessed women’s voices raised at last...a soulful wake-up call.” (Lama Surya Das, spiritual teacher, author of Awakening the Buddha Within, and founder of the Dzogchen Center)

“A bedside book to reach for during the darkest nights, as well in times of grace and glory.” (Nancy Steinbeck, author of The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck)

L'autore:

Mary Ford-Grabowsky is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher with a specialty in the world's mystical traditions. Her publications include inspirational books, such as Prayers for All People and Sacred Poems and Prayers of Love, and many essays and scholarly articles. After receiving a master of divinity degree and a doctorate in theology and spirituality from Princeton Theological Seminary, she taught in the religious studies department of Regis College, later returning to Princeton to become editor of Fellowhsip in Prayer. In 1995 she moved to California at the invitation of the Episcopal theologian Matthew Fox to become vice president and academic dean of the Universtiy of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, where she today serves as a member of the adjunct faculty and board. Among honors she has received are an award from the ecumenical branch of the World Council of Churches for distinguished service in interfaith work. A translater who studed Spanish in Mexico and German, French, and Italian in Europe, she has been collecting and translating prayers for many years and is currently preparing a book of women's prayers for publication. She warmly invites readers of this book to send their favorite prayers to her at: P.O. Box 21267, Oakland, CA 94620-1267.

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• Editore: Harperone
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0062517023
• ISBN 13: 9780062517029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 358
• Redattore: Ford-Grabowsky Mary