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Freedom song : faith, abuse, music and spirituality. A lived experience of celebration / June Boyce-Tillman.
LIBRA BV4596.A25 B69 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyce-Tillman, June, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Music and spirituality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lord's prayer.
- Adult child abuse victims--Religious life.
- Adult child abuse victims.
- Adult child abuse victims--Biography.
- Child abuse.
- Lord's prayer--Meditations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Meditations.
- Physical Description:
- 528 pages; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Peter Lang, 2018.
- Summary:
- Back cover: This book is an autobiographical account of the development of an authentic interiority. It charts the way in which the Christian faith in which the author was enculturated was refined by her lived experience of music, abuse, forgiveness, interfaith dialogue, gender and vocation (into teaching and priesthood). The author describes how music and spirituality can create a route into forgiveness by creatively transforming ("mulching") childhood abuse into celebration. Her work challenges established therapeutic models and suggests a variety of alternative tools, including created ritual. The volume is set out as a series of meditations on the themes contained in the Lord’s Prayer; it can be read in separate sections, as well as in its totality. The author’s life is perceived as a crystal that can be viewed through various lenses, illustrated by different styles of writing. These include narrative accounts written in a personal style; hymns, songs and poems that condense her thinking around a theme; and more academic reflection, using other people’s writing and experiences to understand her own.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Our: Belonging p. 1
- Chapter 2 Father: A Distant Beloved p. 35
- Chapter 3 Who Art in Heaven: Death of a Friend p. 47
- Chapter 4 Hallowed Be: Indigenous Traditions p. 65
- Chapter 5 Thy Name: A Woman's Place p. 77
- Chapter 6 Thy Kingdom Come: The Dignity of Difference p. 105
- Chapter 7 Thy Will Be Done: The Vocation to the Priesthood p. 133
- Chapter 8 In Earth: Ecotheology p. 165
- Chapter 9 As It Is in Heaven: The Liminal Space p. 179
- Chapter 10 Give Us This Day: Gratitude p. 199
- Interlude: On Not Becoming a Woman p. 241
- Chapter 11 Our Daily Bread; Food p. 253
- Chapter 12 And Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Forgiveness p. 267
- Chapter 13 As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us: A Good Friday Thing p. 277
- Chapter 14 And Lead Us Not into Temptation: Motherhood p. 295
- Chapter 15 But Deliver Us: A Box Full of Darkness p. 317
- Chapter 16 From Evil: Re-Balancing p. 345
- Chapter 17 For Thine Is the Kingdom: A Vocation to Teaching p. 371
- Chapter 18 The Power: The Birthing p. 405
- Chapter 19 And the Glory: Affirmation p. 431
- Chapter 20 For Ever and Ever: To the End of My Days p. 445
- Chapter 21 Amen: The Interior Castle p. 459.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1788742192
- 9781788742191
- OCLC:
- 1049797505
- Publisher Number:
- 99978846203
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