Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist - Couverture rigide

Russell, Sharman Apt

 
9780465005178: Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist
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ISBN 10 : 0465005179 ISBN 13 : 9780465005178
Editeur : Basic Books, 2008

Synopsis

“Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there is no god apart from the universe itself. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. A season of banding birds, the migration of sandhill cranes, the panicked charge of a young javelina-nature provides the inspiration for meditations on subjects ranging from Buddhist thought to the death of her father, from the Quaker tradition to the sadness of children leaving home, from global warming to the ineffable loneliness of human experience. With a humane heart, an inquisitive mind, and luminescent prose, Sharman Apt Russell invites skeptics, scientists, and seekers everywhere to join her in her exploration of the soul of pantheism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sharman Apt Russell is the author of several books, including Hunger and Songs of the Fluteplayer, which won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. She has written for publications including Discover and Nature Conservancy, and currently contributes to OnEarth, the magazine for the National Resource Defense Council. Russell teaches creative writing at Western New Mexico University and at Antioch University in Los Angeles, California. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465005179
ISBN 13 
9780465005178
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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9780465013807: Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

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ISBN 10 :  0465013805 ISBN 13 :  9780465013807
Editeur : Basic Books, 2009
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