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Title: At the Root of This Longing : Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol L. Flinders ISBN: 0-06-251315-X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: YES!
Comment: I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends.

Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience as a woman and a feminist rages against these practices and urges her to embrace her physical self, be heard, and start serving and honoring herself. Flinders' attempts a life that integrates feminism and spirituality and looks forward to a time when others embrace this infusion and proactively affect the world.

I found this book to be thoroughly inspirational and offered much support to me. I highly recommend it, no matter what your faith, path, practice, or persuasion be!

Rating: 5
Summary: Transformational
Comment: This book is critical for women and feminist men alike. All will walk away re-examining their own views and values. A particular idea that is staying with me (on this reading) is the idea of "retreat > magnification > transformation." The book itself provides such an experience by allowing the reader to go within his or her own thoughts on the two themes, putting a magnifying glass to literature, sociology, history, and the writer's own history to illuminate the topics, thus creating the opportunity to transform or critically change one's one view of the Journey. As suggested on the back cover, I am recommending it to all I know and encouraging a local discussion group.

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential
Comment: This book was profoundly useful in helping me reclaim my spirituality after having left the church in anger years ago. Ms. Flinders identifies elements essential in helping women find their wholeness. The book is written clearly and beautifully. I recommend it whole-heartedly.

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