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And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion / Adrian Shirk.

by Shirk, Adrian, author.

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Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2017.

Shirk, Adrian -- Religion.

Women -- Religious life -- United States.

Women and religion -- United States.

Religious biography -- United States.

Feminism -- United States -- Religious aspects.

United States -- Religion.

9781619029538 (hardcover) :

1619029537 (hardcover)

xvii, 267 pages ; 24 cm

First Counterpoint hardcover edition.

A declaration of sentiments -- We are all scientists: Mary Baker Eddy -- Our bodies, our smoke: The Moon Lodge -- The laughing virgin: Flannery O'Connor -- Dear Linda: Linda Goodman -- Who wanders unencumbered: Aunt Robin -- Meet me in Lily Dale: The Fox sisters -- True facts told by her: Aimee Semple McPherson -- Heavenly Mother will believe you: Eliza Snow -- This building is yours: The Takeover -- The blackout: The prodigal son -- Shadow and substance: Sojourner Truth -- Witchery: Marie Laveau -- Sanctuaries: The yuwipi.

Laced throughout this hybrid memoir are stories of American religious traditions revised by women. Shirk collects the histories of astrologers, faith healers, preachers, priestesses, mambos, and mediums who've had to find their own ways toward divinity outside prescribed patriarchal orders. Each woman represents a pathway for Shirk's own spiritual inquiries. She introduces us to the New Orleans high priestess Marie Laveau, the pop New Age pioneer Linda Goodman, the prophetic vision of intersectionality as preached by Sojourner Truth, "saint" Flannery O'Connor, and so many more. Through her journey, Shirk discovers that, as the culture wars flatten religious discourse and shred institutional trust, more and more Americans are yearning for alternative, individualized, feminist routes through religion. And women, having spent so much time at the margins of religious discourse, illuminate its darkened corners.

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