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Voices and Echoes

Canadian Women’s Spirituality
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006

About this book

“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword

Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape of their spiritual lives. Experienced writers such as Lorna Crozier, Di Brandt and Ann Copeland, as well as strong new voices, appear to speak to each other as they draw from a wealth of personal resources to find a way to face life’s questions and discover meaning in their lives.

There is something familiar about these stories and poems — they echo those we’ve heard before and those we’ve half forgotten. Whether they search for a voice in a world where men monopolize or journey into painful memories to free the self from the past, they do not despair, they do not end. Individual entries become the whole story — an unending story of rebirth and reaffirmation.

The book begins with an illuminating foreword that introduces readers to the cultural and philosophical background of many of the stories, and concludes with the reflections of scholars, writers and artists that are intended to provoke further discussion.

Author / Editor information

Contributor: Jo-Anne Elder

Jo-Anne Elder is a writer, translator and editor whose articles on translation and women have been widely published. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Sherbrooke in comparative Canadian literature.

--- Contributor: Colin O’Connell

Colin O’Connell, currently a free-lance journalist and co-author of Liberation Education and Value Relativism, received his Ph.D. in religious studies from McMaster University.

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``The issues delved into ... reflect a broad range of spiritual experiences....'' --- ``The task and the outcome reflect a postmodern sensibility, allowing for plurality and a free-floating perspective. This book does not presuppose a sectarian approach, instead it offers the personal and anything-goes route, transformation through Buddhism, Native spirituality, Christianity, Judaism and Goddess worship.''

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

    vii
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    Acknowledgements

    xi
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    Foreword: Voices

    xiii
    Jo-Anne Elder
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    Through a Glass Darkly: Visions and Echoes

    1
    Ann Copeland
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    Angelus, or Blessed Are the Uninitiated for They Shall Go Fishing

    11
    Donna Caruso
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    already there is no going back

    19
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    The Day I Sat with Jesus on the Sun Deck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts

    21
    Gloria Sawai
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    Discriminatio Spirituum

    33
    Melissa Hardy
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    the challenge

    39
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    the wall

    41
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    scenting You

    43
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    hallel* (dedicated to the Women of the Wall)

    45
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    breaking the rules

    47
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    Margaret's Dreams

    49
    Susan Kerslake
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    The Death of a Husband

    57
    Liza Potvin
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    Disturbing the Peace

    61
    Janina Hornosty
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    The Stations of the Cross

    67
    Ingrid MacDonald
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    This Is History for Donna Goodleaf

    77
    Beth Brant
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    Journey into the Vortex

    83
    Maya Khankhoje
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    Myths

    91
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    Between Ebony and Ivory

    93
    Martine Jacquot
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    Last Picnic

    97
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    Second Solitude

    99
    Lorraine Coyle
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    Parallel Images

    109
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    Beginning in Summer

    111
    Sharon Ferguson-Hood
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    Mother is Sewing

    119
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    Blood and Chestnuts

    121
    Kathy O'Grady
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    Gifts

    125
    Marguerite Andersen
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    The Birth Circle

    129
    Louise Holland
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    The Weaned Child

    135
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    The Spirit of a World without Spirit: Meditation on Night Number One

    137
    Anne Ricard Burke
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    What She Remembered and What She Forgot

    149
    Joyce Howe
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    Eric's Song

    159
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    Thee

    161
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    Black Moon

    165
    Helene Turcotte
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    A Day in the Life of a Warrior, or Safe in the Body of Goddess

    171
    Claudia Gahlinger
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    Further Foreword: Echoes

    183
    Colin O'Connell
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    Echoes

    187
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    List of Contributors

    219
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    Source Notes

    227
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    Selected Bibliography

    229
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    Series Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/ Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses

    239
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9780889208193
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https://doi.org/10.51644/9780889208193
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Religion; Religion: Spirituality; Social Science: Women’s Studies
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