Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery

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Harper Collins, Dec 27, 1989 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 384 pages
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An examination of the nature of power that offers creative alternatives for positive change in our personal lives, our communities, and our world.
 

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I have read this book, or parts of it, multiple times. I consider it one of the foundational books any social activist should read. Read full review

Review: Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery

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I have read this book, or parts of it, multiple times. I consider it one of the foundational books any social activist should read. Read full review

Contents

A Story of Beginnings
1
The Dismembering of the World
32
A Story of Masks
68
CHAPTER THREE
81
Unraveling and Reweaving Pattern and Ritual
93
CHAPTER FOUR
100
The First Gate
113
CHAPTER FIVE
119
CHAPTER EIGHT
211
The Last Gate
227
LISTS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
234
The Return
253
CHAPTER
259
Ritual to Build Community
296
CHAPTER ELEVEN
297
Resistance and Renewal
312

The Second Gate
138
CHAPTER
142
The Third Gate
174
CHAPTER SEVEN
181
The Fourth Gate
199
CHAPTER TWELVE
321
The Last Story
341
Bibliography
355
Resources
363
Copyright

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About the author (1989)

Starhawk is the author of nine books, including her bestselling The Spiral Dance, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, and Webs of Power, winner of the 2003 Nautilus Award for social change. She has an international reputation, and her works have been translated into many different languages. Starhawk is also a columnist for beliefnet.com and ZNet. A veteran of progressive movements who is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, she travels internationally, teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. Starhawk lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes.

Bibliographic information

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TitleTruth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery
Women's studies: Harper
AuthorStarhawk
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarper Collins, 1989
ISBN0062508164, 9780062508164
Length384 pages
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