I appreciate the questions she is helping me ask and her observations about how the Churches disregard of God's feminine characteristics have influenced the way it interacts with the environment, the state, etc.This book has been recommended to me multiple times, and I finally got around to reading it this Mother's Day.This book has been recommended to me multiple times, and I finally got around to reading it this Mother's Day.While I hadn't given the male slant in Christianity much thought of late, (I stopped attending a traditional protestant church in my early 20's & was now attending a liberal church), reading this book reminded me why I couldn't have been born in an earlier time. View All Available Formats & Editions. The important part is naming the pain, calling it out; patriarchy. I grew up in New Hampshire in the 1980's in a family of five daughters, and can honestly say that, with the exception of church, I was never made to feel bad or less worthy because I was a girl. But this book shattered my idealistic, still-remaining images of faith and what it meant for me as a woman. Yet, again I stress that women and nature are gifts from God and shouldn’t be worshipped as gods themselves. Sandy is not rigid or authoritarian, never demands that Sue "submit," but he initially resists her journey based on non-verbalized fears about what will happen to their relationship. I'm especially nurtured by Kidd's re-telling and working with the myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinth and aMy friend, Tina, was reading another title by this author, and I looked for that book, but found this one instead. Sue Monk Kidd provides a critique of the patriarchal culture of the Christian church, and delves into how she feels it's let women down. At a retreat, she embarrasses herself by introducing herself as Fr. I worried that it would be too theologically "out there" for me to relate to, but I bought it anyway because I have loved another book of Kidd's, When the Heart Waits, so much.I've had this book on my shelf for quite a while and never felt ready to read it until now. Over the next two years, she writes this book, and leaves readers with the message: "She is in us. She achieves peace with male-dominated Christianity as she sees hopes that the feminine can achieve balance. Since then I've had at least one dream of a figure I dimly identify as an Inner Feminine Guide--a white-haired teacher type from Pennsylvania, much like a nun I know named Sister Barbara, who taught about compassion. I do not think I come to the same conclusions she does or that I will follow in her patThis book chronicles Sue Monk Kidd's journey from a Southern Baptist church to a spirituality focused on what she calls The Feminine Divine. everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. But this book shattered my idealistic, still-remaininThis book rocked my little world in 2004. Like “Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.” I know this is a very strong opinion, but I really feel like SMK has created her own idol(s). I found this book to be the door into profound personal journey of faith and theology, but it is not for the faint of heart (or faith!). They are married 19 years when Sue's quest begins. TheAn emotional and thought provoking read for any woman raised in a partiarchal religious tradition. In the last two decades, this groundbreaking memoir has become a classic work of feminine spiritual discovery that has impacted hundreds of thousands of readers, and is as compelling today as when it was first published. . They were the type of books that you don’t want to put down, but you don’t want to end, especially, The Secret Life of Bees. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine Summary. $6.99. I found myself making notes like "THIS IS MY WHOLE LIFE!" Best selling author (“The Secret Life of Bees”) Sue Monk Kidd was born into a conservative Christian family and married a conservative Christian minister. She leaves Orthodox Christianity after coming face to face with the sexism in the church and, as she sees it, in the whole Christian religion. I grew up in a world where saying these things out loud was not cool. Never before has she thought about it so systematically. As the book ends, Sandy is driving them home from dropping off daughter Ann at college. However, I expected a greater breadth to her cited work when it came to the theological particulars. This is one of the few books I have that I won't be loaning out as I have notes in the margins already and have journalled on passages throughout the book. She is a shining example of what women authors can aspire to be and this may just be my favorite book by her yet. However, I was saddened when I read The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. Sue. Sue Monk Kidd had been my "spiritual mentor" for a number of years. I had already entered a time of transformation--so much so that I had entered the Catholic Church two years before I read this book for the first time. Like ME! The first couple chapters were alright as I could relate to her somewhat but then I felt like she just started swallowing whole everything that she read and chucking her entire past out the window.

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