TY - BOOK AU - Reed,Wendy AU - Horne,Jennifer AU - Adams,Mitzi AU - Awiakta,Marilou AU - Blackmarr,Amy AU - Chapman,Marshall AU - Cushman,Susan AU - Fennelly,Beth Ann AU - Fowler,Connie May AU - Gibson,Margaret AU - Johnson,Rheta Grimsley AU - Karr,Mary AU - Moffitt,Debra AU - Moss,Barbara Robinette AU - Osbey,Brenda Marie AU - Reiss,Valerie AU - Suberman,Stella AU - Taylor,Barbara Brown AU - Walker,Alice AU - White,Cia TI - Circling faith: southern women on spirituality SN - 9780817386085 AV - BL625.7 .C579 2012eb U1 - 200.820975 PY - 2012/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Faith KW - Women KW - Religious life KW - Southern States KW - Spirituality KW - Women authors KW - Foi KW - Femmes KW - Vie religieuse KW - États-Unis (Sud) KW - Spiritualité KW - Écrivaines KW - faith KW - aat KW - RELIGION KW - Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Religion KW - hilcc KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Religion - General KW - Electronic books N1 - Acknowledgments; A Special Note on Barbara Robinette Moss (1954-2009) -- Duane DeRaad; Introduction: A Faith of Verbs; I. Seeking Faith in Motion and Stillness; Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer -- Mary Karr; Pilgrimage -- Debra Moffitt; Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow -- Susan Cushman; II. Keeping Faith of Our Mothers; Taking Terroir on Faith -- Beth Ann Fennelly; Amazons in Appalachia -- Marilou Awiakta; Why We Can't Talk to You About Voodoo -- Brenda Marie Osbey; III. Embodying Faith in the Flesh; Magic -- Amy Blackmarr; Going to Church: A Sartorial Odyssey -- Marshall Chapman; What the Body Knows -- Barbara Brown Taylor; The Queen of Hearts -- Margaret Gibson; IV. Questioning Life Without Faith?; Rapture on Hold -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson; The Only Jews in Town -- Stella Suberman; A Purposeful Life -- Mitzi Adams; V. Transforming Faith in Change; A Fairy Tale: The Prodigal Daughter Returns -- Connie May Fowler; Alice Walker Calls God "Mama": An Interview with Alice -- Valerie Reiss; Signs of Faith -- Barbara Robinette Moss; What We Will Call Nature -- Cia White; Contributors; Permissions N2 - Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Mary Karr, in "Facing Altars," describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her to a similar solace in prayer. In "Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow," Susan Cushman recounts how her dissatisfaction with a Presbyterian upbringing led her to hold her own worship services at home and eventually to join the Eastern Orthodox Church. "Magic" by Amy Blackmarr depicts UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=434729 ER -