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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.
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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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Book designed by Elyse J. Strongin, Neuwirth and Associates, Inc.
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