Muddy Mysticism (Paperback)

Natalie Bryant Rizzieri

ISBN 10: 1910559652 / ISBN 13: 9781910559659

Published by Womancraft Publishing, 2021

About this Item

Paperback. Muddy Mysticism is a spiritual memoir, a lyrical articulation of an emergent feminist mysticism, and a heartfelt response to the lack of mystical literature by women who have chosen a life of family, love, work, and the world. Like many women, Natalie Bryant Rizzieri finds the faith of her childhood no longer fits . . . yet still there is a longing for the sacred. Through poetry, reflection, and experience, she moves into the possibility of direct experience with the divine . . . beyond a belief system. Exploring the possibility of daily life in the modern world not as something to be transcended or escaped, but as a mystical path in its own right. Muddy Mysticism offers consolation to those who feel the truth and bewilderment that the late German Jesuit priest, Karl Rahner, touched upon when he said that the only way a person would survive with an intact faith in this century is by being a mystic. Natalie Bryant-Rizzieri is an award winning poet. This is her first nonfiction title. Muddy Mysticism is a spiritual memoir, a lyrical articulation of an emergent feminist mysticism and a heartfelt response to the lack of mystical literature by women who have chosen a life of family, love, work and the world. Like many women she found the faith of her childhood no longer fitted yet still there is a longing for the sacred. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Muddy Mysticism (Paperback)
• Publisher: Womancraft Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910559652
• ISBN 13: 9781910559659
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

• Non-fiction debut from Hackney Literary Award-winning poet.
• Focuses on much-overlooked tradition of female mystics and women’s religious experience.
• Starting from a traditional Christian background, the author expands her understanding of, and relationship to, the sacred.

Muddy Mysticism is a spiritual memoir, a lyrical articulation of an emergent feminist mysticism and a heartfelt response to the lack of mystical literature by women who have chosen a life of family, love, work and the world.

Like many women Natalie Bryant Rizzieri found the faith of her childhood no longer fitted... yet still there is a longing for the sacred. Through poetry, reflection and experience she moves into the possibility of direct experience with the divine...beyond a belief system. Exploring the possibility of daily life in the modern world not as something to be transcended or escaped...but as a mystical path in its own right.
Muddy Mysticism offers consolation to those who feel the truth and bewilderment that the late German Jesuit priest, Karl Rahner, touched upon when he said that the only way a person would survive with an intact faith in this century is by being a mystic.
Natalie Bryant-Rizzieri is an award-winning poet. This is her first non-fiction title.

About the Author

Natalie Bryant Rizzieri is a poet, writer, activist, mother, and mystic. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Pleaides, Terrain.org, and Crab Orchard Review. She is the winner of the Hackney Literary Award and the founder and director of Friends of Warm Hearth, a movement of forever homes for abandoned Armenians with special needs. She spends her free time, at least in spring, digging for earthworms, watching for ravens, and collecting moss. She is making a home deep in the forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, with her husband and three sons.