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Copyright © 2017 by Adrian Shirk

First Counterpoint hardcover edition: 2017

First Counterpoint paperback edition: 2018

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Excerpt from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Random House.

Excerpt from An American Childhood. Copyright © 1988 by Annie Dillard.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpt from Teaching a Stone to Talk. Copyright © 1982 by Annie Dillard.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover as follows:

Names: Shirk, Adrian, author.

Title: And your daughters shall prophesy : stories from the byways of American women and religion / Adrian Shirk.

Description: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017015896 | ISBN 9781619029538 | eISBN 9781619029668

Subjects: LCSH: Women—Religious life—United States. | Women and religion—United States. | Religious biography—United States. | United States—Religion.

Classification: LCC BL625.7 .S55 2017 | DDC 277.30092/52—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015896

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-64009-101-6

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