Overview
A leading authority on religion and spirituality in America recounts the changes she witnessed from 1992 2004, a period she compares to the tumultuous years of the Reformation and Peri-Reformation in Europe.As the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly, Phyllis Tickle was a key figure in bringing discussions about religion into the nation s cultural and intellectual mainstream. Prayer Is a Place is her insightful first-person account of the people she has met and the trends she has observed over twelve crucial years of change in American religion. Tickle writes about her face-to-face meetings with such luminaries as the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Chief Mullah of Jerusalem; describes speeches and conferences that redefined traditional religions; and chronicles the birth of new approaches to religion and spirituality. The result is a fascinating overview of the reconfiguration of religion in America and its impact on our culture. In charting the changes, passions and innovations that have occurred, Tickle remains a clear-eyed, unbiased and sympathetic observer. From her lively reminiscences of the 1003 Parliament of the World s Religions a seminal gathering of Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists to an intriguing look at the rise of Gnosticism in the country to a cogent analysis of the spirituality movements that swept through America during the last decades of the twentieth century, Prayer Is a Place reminds readers that reverence can be expressed in many different forms and in many different settings.
Full Product Details
Author: Phyllis Tickle
Imprint: Doubleday Books
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9780385504409
ISBN 10: 0385504403
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 01 January 2009
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Advance Praise for Prayer Is a Place <br><br> I can think of no better guide through the changing religious landscape-- messy and highly flammable --than Phyllis Tickle . . . . She manages to make her description of the raucous parade of contemporary American religion into a journey of gracious personal freedom where mercy and inclusion push the reader into prayer and amazement. This book is a wake-up call to embrace a generous view of religion and, above all, it provides a much needed antidote to religion's exclusive and violent manifestations. <br>--Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San Francisco<br>Author of Reimagining Christianity
Advance Praise for Prayer Is a Place I can think of no better guide through the changing religious landscape-- messy and highly flammable --than Phyllis Tickle . . . . She manages to make her description of the raucous parade of contemporary American religion into a journey of gracious personal freedom where mercy and inclusion push the reader into prayer and amazement. This book is a wake-up call to embrace a generous view of religion and, above all, it provides a much needed antidote to religion's exclusive and violent manifestations. --Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San FranciscoAuthor of Reimagining Christianity
Advance Praise for Prayer Is a Place <br> I can think of no better guide through the changing religious landscape-- messy and highly flammable --than Phyllis Tickle . . . . She manages to make her description of the raucous parade of contemporary American religion into a journey of gracious personal freedom where mercy and inclusion push the reader into prayer and amazement. This book is a wake-up call to embrace a generous view of religion and, above all, it provides a much needed antidote to religion's exclusive and violent manifestations. <br>--Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral San Francisco<br>Author of Reimagining Christianity
Author Information
PHYLLIS TICKLE was, until recently, religion editor and editor at large at <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, the leading trade publication in the publishing industry. The author of more than two dozen books, including <i>The Shaping of a Life, The Divine Hours, Eastertide, </i>and<i> Christmastide</i>, she lives on The Farm In Lucy, near Memphis, Tennessee.<i>
