RELIGIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES - Softcover

Part I: ABOUT RELIGIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 1. What Is Religious Autobiography? 2. What Is Religion? Part II: RELIGIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. 3. Lakota Sioux. John Fire Lame Deer. Mary Crow Dog. 4. Druidry. Philip Carr-Gomm. Emma Restall Orr. 5. Hinduism. Gopi Krishna. Shudha Mazumdar. 6. Buddhism. Thich Nhat Hanh. Satomi Myodo. 7. Creation Spirituality. Matthew Fox. Layne Redmond. 8. Judaism. Judith Magyar Isaacson. Samuel Heilman. 9. Honduran Catholicism. Padre Carney. Elvia Alvarado. 10. African-American Protestantism. Benjamin E. Mays. Bessie Jones. 11. Islam. Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Zaynab al-Ghazali.

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.