This volume cautions leaders and activists who have experienced success to guard against the rigidity that can come with power and to avoid simplistic understandings of good and evil. The author argues that those in power must accept a certain chaos level, not just tolerating multicultural differences but actively engaging differences. Women must not focus only on seeking consensus, but also must feel comfortable exercising power; leaders need not aim for utopia or the end of evil, but should have realistic expectations. In the book, political work is linked to spirituality, aiming to show...

An updated edition of this influential feminist text.

""How many times have we asked what would be an appropriate North American equivalent to the base communities and the liberation theology of Latin America? Now in Sharon Welchs fluent but solid book we have an answer. Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical and theological sources and viewing the whole from a critical feminist perspective, Welch suggests how subjugated forms of knowledge can be recuperated as human communities learn to support each other in resisting our socio-cultural death wish. A passionate and poetic book, which strikes a new chord in theology both in style and in...