Self and Soul: A Woman's Guide to Enhancing Self-Esteem Through Spirituality

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Summary: Recommend for non-denominational spirituality
Review: This book is simple and direct, but very rich. It provides new paths to thinking on each read. The insights here are wonderfully broad, crossing not only denominations but merging spiritual precepts across whole religions and finally leading to something many of us suspected all along--that maybe those things we were taught way back when were just plain wrong, bad interpretations we were right to feel uncomfortable accepting. Wilcox lets us know there are many very generous ways to approach spirituality and its potential comforts and guidance, without accepting the gendered politics in which it has traditionally been embedded.

My 11-year-old son has questioned the "in Christ's name" precepts pushed on him in violation of his own developing sense of morality, and as he raises his questions, we have enjoyed reading together and discussing pieces of this fine book; Wilcox has given us some common ground with which to face our discontent with traditional American religion, while also providing us with a new awareness of the wonders of a shared spirituality free of the entrenched, and not necessarily correct, interpretations.

It's an eye-opener, a comfort, and good for both the brain and the heart.