Prayer Is a Place: America's Religious Landscape ObservedA 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. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 21 |
Section 3 | 45 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 57 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 85 |
Section 8 | 91 |
Section 16 | 205 |
Section 17 | 209 |
Section 18 | 215 |
Section 19 | 223 |
Section 20 | 235 |
Section 21 | 241 |
Section 22 | 245 |
Section 23 | 249 |
Section 9 | 125 |
Section 10 | 147 |
Section 11 | 173 |
Section 12 | 179 |
Section 13 | 183 |
Section 14 | 189 |
Section 15 | 199 |
Section 24 | 259 |
Section 25 | 265 |
Section 26 | 301 |
Section 27 | 307 |
Section 28 | 335 |
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