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And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories From the Byways of American Women and Religion | Adrian Shirk
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". . . the perfect hybrid of memoir and history. . . Adrian Shirk is one of the great millennial thinkers. Read this book and be exhilarated." —Ariel Gore, author of We Were Witches And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy is a powerful, personal exploration of American women and their theologies, weaving connections between Adrian Shirk's own varied spiritual experiences and the prophetesses, feminists, and spiritual icons who have shaped this country. 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. And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy is a beacon to those who are searching for a spirituality of resistance, for an unsteady truth. It draws a line from our own era of unrest to the women who came before us, those fascinating innovators, boundary crossers, paradoxes, and radical justice seekers.
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I didn't know at first this was half memoir, and was expecting all chapters to be profiles of women who have influenced religion. I eventually got into the pattern but I'm not sure the combination works. Both are interesting, but still... her life story is so much about the mental illness in her family but that isn't the focus of the religious parts. Of course the religious figures stem from her own encounters with them. This came out Aug. 22.