Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

lots to think about:

Carol Lee Flinders has embarked on the difficult task of reconciling feminism and spirituality. She, like several other scholars and writers today, recognizes the conflict between these two concepts and also the attraction each has for women. Flinders does a fine job outlining the tensions between feminism and spirituality, including the tension between finding voice and reveling in silence. Her ideas are cross-cultural and sweeping and lead to interesting and insightful connections; her probing of both... more info

YES!:

I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends.

Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience... more info

Couldn't get past the first few chapters.......:

The author is certainly writing for a target audience.......as one other reviewer said, white, upper-middle-class, female would-be mystics. I found the stories of life on the commune mind-numbing (then again, I was born in Berkeley in 1970, so that hippie commune kumbayah stuff reminds me of eating carob when I was a kid) and the rest of what I did manage to read alienating.......zzzzzzzzzzzz.......I am not saying this is a bad book at all, just that it's focus was so narrow that it completely lost my... more info

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