Beyond Belief - Review
I don't often review books, mainly because I think people should read books and decide whether they are relevant to them rather than taking the word of someone else. However, I am making an exception with Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions, an anthology of stories by women from a wide and diverse range of religious communities. I learned of this book through Women on Writing , who are sponsoring the Beyond Belief Blog Tour. The first thing that hit me was the use of the word extreme. What, I thought, was an "extreme" religion? As an interfaith minister, I had some ideas, but like most judgements, they were my own personal feelings. So, I delved into the introduction to the book written by the editors, Susan Tive and Cami Ostman. Susan and Cami tell the readers in their introduction about how "women living life inside extreme religions have much in common despite their differences of practice and belief." ...