
White Fire
A Potrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America
Malka Drucker(Author)
SkyLight Paths Publishing,US
Will be published approx. on 16. January 2003
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-893361-64-5 (ISBN)
Description
They struggled to clear a new path for women;
these are the stories of modern spiritual pioneers.
"I imagine this book as a dinner party where women have eagerly gathered for a conversation about being a woman, a person of faith, and a leader. While some know each other, many do not, but it doesn't matter. Listening to them in ensemble reveals that all their differences are less important than how much they share as women of faith. Since community and interconnection tend to be feminine traits, sisterhood is important, and I hope that upon finishing the book, the reader may feel that she or he has found a teacher that offers a new way to see women and the Divine."
-from the Introduction
There is an ancient mystical legend that the Bible was written with black fire on white fire. Now, we can only read the black fire (the letters), but someday we might be able to see the white fire. Today, with their voices and their presence growing ever stronger, women spiritual leaders in America are like white fire, and we can see the previously untapped power of female leadership.
This remarkable book gives voice and image to the too often invisible, ignored, or overlooked narrative of women's spiritual leadership in America today. Revealed through insightful interviews and compelling photographic portraits, the women represent both diversity and sisterhood. They offer us new ways of relating to each other, and the Divine.
these are the stories of modern spiritual pioneers.
"I imagine this book as a dinner party where women have eagerly gathered for a conversation about being a woman, a person of faith, and a leader. While some know each other, many do not, but it doesn't matter. Listening to them in ensemble reveals that all their differences are less important than how much they share as women of faith. Since community and interconnection tend to be feminine traits, sisterhood is important, and I hope that upon finishing the book, the reader may feel that she or he has found a teacher that offers a new way to see women and the Divine."
-from the Introduction
There is an ancient mystical legend that the Bible was written with black fire on white fire. Now, we can only read the black fire (the letters), but someday we might be able to see the white fire. Today, with their voices and their presence growing ever stronger, women spiritual leaders in America are like white fire, and we can see the previously untapped power of female leadership.
This remarkable book gives voice and image to the too often invisible, ignored, or overlooked narrative of women's spiritual leadership in America today. Revealed through insightful interviews and compelling photographic portraits, the women represent both diversity and sisterhood. They offer us new ways of relating to each other, and the Divine.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Woodstock
United States
Publishing group
Jewish Lights Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
812 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-893361-64-5 (9781893361645)
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Malka Drucker is an award-winning author of nearly twenty books, including Jacob's Rescue; The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays; and Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, another joint project with photographer Gay Block; the Rescuers photo exhibition has traveled to more than seventy venues and was the basis for a Showtime television series. Block's photographs are shown widely in the United States and are held in numerous collections.