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"To Live Fully, Here and Now formulates a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Alice Walker's spiritual wisdom in the age of heightened global awareness, natural devastation, and spiritual crisis. Simcikova argues that to fully understand Walker's complex and multilayered concept of spirituality, we have to move beyond the womanist model to incorporate and/or accommodate all the influences that have had a significant impact on Walker, particularly...

Pilgrim in Love begins with a brief summary of Dante's life and times, and then explores his writings. It contains commentary on many cantos of the Divine Comedy with a focus on the themes of love and pilgrimage into God. The book is written in non-technical language for the general reader, for beginners in Dante studies, as well as for all persons who seek a deeper spiritual vision and a richer spiritual life. (Front Flap).

To explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century...