The Divine Mosaic: Women's Images of the Sacred Other - Softcover

King, Theresa

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9780936663104: The Divine Mosaic: Women's Images of the Sacred Other

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ISBN 10: 0936663103 ISBN 13: 9780936663104

Publisher: Yes Intl Pub, 1994

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In this remarkable collection of essays, twenty-four women from many different spiritual traditions look into the face of God and tell us what they see. Their images of the Sacred Other in prose and poetry form a mosaic that challenges old assumptions and brings the divine fully into the lives of women today.

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About the Author:

Theresa King is a writer, publisher, and teacher of spirituality. Her work is the expression of a lifetime of study, practice, and worldwide travel. A religious from her teens, she earned a B. S. in education and taught children in Chicago area schools. She left the convent and moved to Europe to study theology in the Netherlands and England. In 1972 she became a disciple of the saint, Swami Rama of the Himalayas and became his personal assistant. She helped establish the Himalayan International Institute and its press, published thirty-eight books and numerous periodicals, and taught yoga. King lived with the saint in the U.S., Nepal, and India, and assisted in conferences on spirituality and wellness in England, Japan, Nepal, and the United States. After receiving an M.A. in Human Development and Spirituality from St. Mary s University, she served as spiritual director at Seattle University, and served on the core committee of the Theological Insights Program of the College of St. Catherine. She founded Yes International Publishers in 1986 and continues to produce award-winning books. Her poetry has won international awards and her books, The Spiral Path: Essays and Interviews on Women s Spirituality and The Divine Mosaic: Women s Images of the Sacred Other, are also recipients of publishing awards. She now serves as core faculty of the Institute of the Himalayan Tradition in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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In this collection of twenty-four essays and poems, Theresa King has gathered a diverse group of women, academics as well as members of religious communities... As I read through the various offerings, I was pleased to see that this was not, for the most part, an effort simply to create yet another external picture of God with feminine characteristics. Rather, each woman shares her own direct sense of the Divine, sometimes through her most intimate spiritual experiences. For others, the path led from Western traditions to Eastern Philosophies, from more traditional academic or spiritual arenas to more obscure lifestyles. The stories are as varied as the women themselves. They offer reassurance that wherever we are, whatever our tradition and lifestyle, we too can embark on the journey to the Divinity within. It is difficult to convey the fascinating diversity of this collection in a short review. --Kathleen Perkins, Yoga International, September/October 1994

Based on the premise that any single image of God yields only limited insight, this collection offers a mosaic of such images drawn from across the spectrum of world religions. And while the 25 women who contribute essays, poetry and personal stories here may represent many disparate traditions and cultures, they also discover for their readers some common threads. Many, for instance, identify childhood experiences, very often those with nature, as roots of their spiritual awareness. They also distinguish between religion and spirituality, and most describe an inadequacy of images, as provided by their various religions, for nurturing women s spirituality. It is always refreshing to read a feminist book that shows rather than tells, but King and her essayists have also provided an overview of religions that should be a rich resource of thought and study as well. Illustrations. --Publishers Weekly, May 9, 1994

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