Spiritual Herstories

Preface: Dancing Incantations - Celeste Snowber

Introduction - Amanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young

Part One: Patriarchal Critique and Spiritual Feminist Perspectives - Amanda Williamson  

1: Woman, body, earth and spirit - Linda Hartley 

2: Informed by the Goddess - Jane Bacon

3: Until The Lions - Jayne Stevens

4: Symbols of the Goddess in Balkan Women's Dance - Laura Shannon

5: Spirals and circles - Amanda Williamson

6: Soul loss and retrieval - Eline Kieft 

7: Reclaiming our innate vitality - Caroline Frizell

Part Two: Somatic Ethnography, Diasporic Spiritualities and Postcolonial Voices - Barbara Sellers-Young 

8: Dancing bodies and ritual spaces - Yvonne Daniel

9: 'Niimikaage' into the twenty-first century - Sandra Laronde and Elaine Keillor

10: Unearthing the presence of African women dancers in Nyanza province, 1900-40 - Seonagh Kummer 

11: Love Poems to God - Veta Goler

12: Dancing the Four Directions - Rosalie Jones

13: Souls, soil and soma - Ojeya Cruz Banks and Miriam Marler

14: Dancing through myself - Barbara Sellers-Young

Part Three: Spiritual Journeys in Dance Research - Amanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young

15: Writing Why We Dance - Kimerer L. LaMothe 

16: Mystery, magic and the mundane - Celeste Snowber

17: Creativity as medicine - Janet Lynn Roseman

18: Dancing evolutionary spirituality - Cheryl Pallant

19: Attunement and evanescence - Sondra Fraleigh

20: Awakening the spirit through dance, somatics and Scaravelli Yoga - Sara Reed

21: Spirituality in Aurelia Baumgartner's Tanzphilosophie - Aurelia Baumgartner and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe