Dance of the Spirit : The Seven Stages of Women's Spirituality

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Summary: Deeply engaging, thoroughly examines women's spirituality.
Review: A rich book, full of metaphor, deep meanings and affirmation of women's experience in the spiritual journey of life. This book is structured around seven steps of women's spirituality -- using a metaphor of the Dance of the Spirit. Harris describes five that are commonly attributed to spirituality: awakening, discovering, creating, dwelling and nourishing. She adds to those the steps of traditioning and transforming. It is a beautifully written book that speaks to women's real spiritual issues and experiences. It is an excellent resource to use in a small group, as each chapter begins with a centering exercise and ends with spiritual practices designed for that particular step. The book is not an "instruction book" in the spiritual life, but more like a "field guide" to the movements of the spiritual life. Definitely worth reading and would be richly rewarding when used in a class or small group experience.

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Summary: Graceful movement through the spiritual experience.
Review: The authoress moves the audience gracefully through spirituality just as one would move through a waltz. You move through the awakening, Dis-covering, Creating, Dwelling, Nourishing, Traditioning, and into Tranforming. What makes this book unique is that for each chapter one begins with a centering, texts and explanations, and then seven practices where the reader may put what the text explains into actual pratice.

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Summary: seven steps to becoming a more spiritual person
Review: This book affirmed the spirituality of women without pushing feminist thought onto the reader. I appreciated the fact that it uplifted ways to be in touch spiritually with our femininity without putting down traditions that we acquired through a mostly male view point.