Women choosing silence : relationality and transformation in spiritual practice / Alison Woolley.

• Beginnings in silence -- Silent threads : explorations of silence from interdisciplinary perspectives -- Learning to hear : developing methods for listening to women's experiences of silence -- Mapping silence -- Silence and relationality with God -- Silence and relationality with self -- Silence and relationality with others -- Silence in transformation.

• "Silence is long-established as a spiritual discipline amongst people of faith. However, its examination tends to focus on depictions within texts emerging from religious life and the development of its practices. Latterly, feminist theologians have also highlighted the silencing of women within Christian history. Consequently, silence is often portrayed as a solitary discipline based in norms of male monastic experience or a tool of women's subjugation. In contrast, this book investigates chosen practices of silence in the lives of Christian women today, evidencing its potential for enabling profound relationality and empowerment within their spiritual journeys. Opening with an exploration of Christianity's reclamation of practices silence in the twentieth century, this contemporary ethnographic study engages with wider academic conversations about silence. Its substantive theological and empirical exploration of women's practices of silence demonstrates that, for some, silence-based prayer is a valued space for encounter and transformation in relationships with God, with themselves and with others. Utilising a methodology that proposes focusing on silence throughout the qualitative research process, this study also illustrates a new model for depicting relational change. Finally, the book urges practical and feminist theologians to re-examine silence's potential for facilitating the development of more authentic and responsible relationality within people's lives"-- 

Ämnesord

Kvinnor och kristendom  (sao)

Andligt liv  (sao)

Women in Christianity.  (LCSH)

Silence  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (LCSH)

Christian women  -- Religious life. (LCSH)

Spiritual life  -- Christianity. (LCSH)

Women in Christianity.  (fast)

Feministisk teologi  (kao)

Feminist theology  (kao//eng)

Kristna kvinnor  (kao)

Christian women  (kao//eng)

Christian women  -- Religious life. (fast)

Silence  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (fast)

Spiritual life  -- Christianity. (fast)

Tystnad  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Kristendom  -- andlighet -- tystnad (kao)

Christianity  -- spirituality -- silence (kao//eng)

Spiritual life  (LCSH)

Women in Christianity  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BL628.2 (LCC)

248.4/7 (DDC)

Cead (kssb/8 (machine generated))