Eastward Toward Eve: A Geography of Soul - Softcover

Kolbenschlag, Madonna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082451579X ISBN 13: 9780824515799

Publisher: Crossroad, 1996

Synopsis

A bestselling author explores masculine/feminine in East and West and discovers points of convergence that can change our ways of seeing and being in the world.
When Madonna Kolbenschlag went to Japan for a series of lectures, she never dreamed that it would be the beginning of a "journey into difference." She discovered first-hand that, beneath the veneer of Americanization, the soul of the East is far different from the soul of West. It led her to explore the psychic differences that seem to separate us all, individually as well as culturally, and to find the common threads that bind us together. The result of her search for convergence is a fresh way of understanding our own souls.

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From Library Journal:

Kolbenschlag, a psychologist, feminist, spiritual writer, and author (Lost in the Land of Oz: Befriending Your Inner Orphan and Heading for Home, Crossroad, 1994), traveled to Japan in 1994 to deliver a series of lectures. This book meditates upon her encounters with Asian culture, encounters that precipitate new perspectives on Western civilization. She proclaims our need for subjugated knowledge gained from marginalized people, for embodied knowledge free from body-soul dualism, and for valuing of the repressed feminine. She considers a wide variety of issues, such as problems of the One and the Many or of God and the Self; examines gender, role, and homophobia; and reflects on the earlier influence of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Merton compared with the more contemporary influence of Mary Catherine Bateson, Audre Lorde, and Joanna Macy. This is a wonderfully creative and meditatively exploratory book. Recommended for public and seminary libraries.?Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Crossroad
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 082451579X
• ISBN 13: 9780824515799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144