Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism Paperback – January 1, 2003

This small book is a labor of love that remains timely and wise. The author interrogates and decolonizes standard feminist, religious, and spiritual tropes inherently tied to exclusionary hierarchies. Envisioning non-violent possibilities based on an inclusive model of community, she brilliantly states, “The journey of spiritualized transformation is not a journey to sainthood; it has nothing to do with the false grandeur of ideas of spiritual leadership. It is quite simply an ongoing form of spiritual labor that can infuse and radically transform our visions and modes of practice. It is this labor which I have been speaking about when I have suggested throughout this book that utopias are realizable. This suggestion is jarring only when utopia is understood as an idyllic existence, a kind of transcendent heaven free from suffering. In fact, utopia exists at the moment when suffering is transformed by love. Utopia is the labor itself which enables such transformation, not, as is mistakenly assumed, the outcome that results from this labor.”This book is radical in its simplicity and directness. It is a call to action that renews the possibility for a fully realized “Beloved Community” in our day to day lives. It is a clear, cogent, thought provoking, beautifully written antidote to the dystopian futures so often promoted as our only possible future.Read it and be renewed.

The book was new & in perfect condition. I would definetly purchase from this seller again!