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Ultimately, hooks decided to talk and write about her faith to give hope to students curious about her source of strength in a society she deemed an \"\"imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNittle traces the influences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh as hooks developed a spiritual practice centered on love as a force for social change. Although hooks opened up about her spiritual philosophy in the last decades of her life, Nittle argues that hooks's contributions to religious discourse are largely unheralded. \u003ci\u003ebell hooks' Spiritual Vision\u003c\/i\u003ereflects her identity as a feminist and a believer who knit together her political and spiritual practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers readers a window into spirituality's role in hooks' writing on her life, love, feminism, and society. It speaks both to hooks's longtime followers and to newcomers to her writing. 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Morrison was clear that she wrote from a Black, female perspective and for others who shared her identity. But just as much as she was an African American writer, Toni Morrison was a woman of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorrison filled her novels with biblical allusions, magic, folktales, and liberated women, largely because Christianity, African American folk magic, and powerful women defined her own life. She grew up with family members who could interpret dreams, predict the future, see ghosts, and go about their business. Her relatives, particularly her mother, were good storytellers, and her family's oral tradition included ghost stories and African American folktales. But her family was also Christian. As a child, Morrison converted to Catholicism and chose a baptismal name that truly became her own--Anthony, from St. Anthony of Padua--going from Chloe to Toni. Morrison embraced both Catholicism and the occult as a child and, later, as a writer. 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