This unique anthology, now with contributing editor C. Wayne Mayhall, includes spiritual autobiographies of both men and women from a variety of religious traditions within a multicultural context. It presents religion as a "lived experience" and helps students think empathetically about religious experiences in a wide variety of cultural and religious settings.
Paperback
Published
October 31st 2003
by Cengage Learning
(first published July 26th 1994)
Not the book I thought it was going to be. This book is suited for a college/university class on World Religions.
Lakota Sioux, Druidry, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Creation Spirituality, Judaism, Honduran Catholicism, African-American Protestantism, and Islam are covered here with two autobiographies for each one. Prior to that we get a chapter on "What is Religious Autobiography" and another chapter on "What is Religion". We even get the author's own religious autobiography.
A word of caution for t
Not the book I thought it was going to be. This book is suited for a college/university class on World Religions.
Lakota Sioux, Druidry, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Creation Spirituality, Judaism, Honduran Catholicism, African-American Protestantism, and Islam are covered here with two autobiographies for each one. Prior to that we get a chapter on "What is Religious Autobiography" and another chapter on "What is Religion". We even get the author's own religious autobiography.
A word of caution for those with light stomachs- the Lakota Sioux and the Judaism biographies contain graphic descriptions that could be upsetting. The first Judaism one is a Holocaust survivor story.
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