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The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004by Philip Zaleski , Jack MilesISBN 0618443037 (0-618-44303-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004'Book summary:It is said that we live in a secular age, yet religion and spirituality, belief and practice, are ever more powerful forces in contemporary culture, shaping both personal lives and world events. The newest addition to the acclaimed Best American series reflects this trend, bringing us the year's finest writing about faith and spirituality from a rich array of traditions sure to enrich the lives of all readers.[via]
Included is the work of some of our finest poets -- Mark Doty, W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine -- and most original essayists. Spiritual insight comes in both expected and unexpected places: Thomas Lynch writes of his work as an undertaker, Sallie Tisdale witnesses the miracle of an elephant's birth, and Patricia Monaghan finds consolation in Heisenberg's theory during a period of intense grief.
In his introduction, Jack Miles writes, "American spiritual writing at its best is, in sum, a pluriform, multifarious acknowledgment of discomfiture and an opening of exits into a wider world . . . The reader is led to this volume, I imagine, by the question: 'There must be something more. Where can I find it?' The contributors to this volume answer, in effect: 'You will find it when it finds you.'"More editions of The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004:
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The Best Spiritual Writingby Philip Zaleski , Kathleen NorrisISBN 0062518054 (0-06-251805-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Spiritual Writing'Book summary:Most contemporary readers agree that the best spiritual writing stays grounded in real-life anecdotes, simple and bold language, and a self-scrutinizing honesty that gives a narrator credibility. With only a few esoteric exceptions, every piece in this anthology edited by Philip Zaleski (senior editor of Parabola magazine) passes this litmus test. When Michael Ventura speaks of finding the "Old One" within himself on his 52nd birthday, his practical wisdom is mesmerizing: "I've learned to leave birthdays unplanned, or almost so, to let the day unfold on its own, because a birthday is a teaching day it has something to reveal.... This is especially true of birthdays, for, as Thomas Hardy once observed, your birthday exists in relation to another day, a day that is impossible to know: we pass silently, every year, over the anniversary of our death."
In one of the most stunning essays in the collection, "Can You Say...Hero?" (originally published in Esquire), journalist Tom Junod speaks of following Fred Rogers around New York City in order to write a profile, and how "Mr. Rogers" gently found his way to Junod's most vulnerable place of spiritual doubt. Contributions from Mary Gordon, Barry Lopez, and Louise Rafkin are also superb. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Best Spiritual Writing 1998by Philip ZaleskiISBN 0062515667 (0-06-251566-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Spiritual Writing 1998'Book summary:What makes this anthology of essays and poems especially welcome and refreshing is its contemporary spiritual context. When Leonie Caldicott writes about the deaths of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and Dr. Victor Frankl (author of Man's Search for Meaning) all in the early weeks of the fall of 1997, she makes the spiritual links that many longed for at the time but were too numbed by media hype and grief to comprehend. Francine Prose writes about witnessing her father's spiritual integrity as a pathologist in the old morgue of Bellevue Hospital while handling the dead victims of AIDS. Simultaneously, this is an anthology that promises a lengthy shelf life. Natalie Goldberg's Buddhist insights after being severely bitten by a dog in France offer timeless gems of compassion and self-deprecating humor. And Madeleine L'Engle's never-before-published essay, "Into Your Hands Lord I Commend My Spirit," reads like a nightly Christian prayer. The anthology's editor Philip Zaleski (senior editor of Parabola magazine) has obviously taken painstaking effort to select the finest and the freshest that the year 1998 had to offer. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2000by Philip ZaleskiISBN 0062516701 (0-06-251670-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Spiritual Writing 2000'Book summary:This third installment in Philip Zaleski's The Best Spiritual Writing series continues to live up to its admirers' expectations. What makes spiritual writing stand up and deliver is not exotic epiphanies in reclusive settings or the recounting of ecstatic communions. The real litmus test is how the narrator can take a flesh-and-bones life story and craft it into something that has spiritual meaning for the collective. "For myself I trust the path through the daily muck much more than the route that goes around it or above it or passes through it like an angel gliding transparently through a solid door," explains Thomas Moore in his Introduction (which, incidentally, warrants inclusion in The Best Spiritual Writing award in and of itself).
Year after year, this series becomes more solid and trustworthy--like a spiritual teacher who always has something age-old to offer in contemporary language. Ann Hood goes in "Search of Miracles" to heal her father of cancer and discovers the true meaning of miracles. In sparse, clean writing Natalie Goldberg tells the story of traveling to Japan to pay homage to her deceased Zen teacher. Jacques Lusseyran speaks from a blind man's perspective, helping us to see the light within instead of always relying on the light beyond. Other contributors include Linda Hogan, John Updike, Annie Dillard, Bill McKibben, and Mary Gordon. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2001by Philip Zaleski , Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0062517724 (0-06-251772-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Spiritual Writing 2001'Book summary:Senior editor for Parabola magazine Philip Zaleski has a finely tuned sense of strong writing and strong spirit, as evidenced in the fifth installment of his highly esteemed Best Spiritual Writing series. The introduction by Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog) sets the stage for the writers to follow. He tells of stumbling upon a "spiritual bookstore" while vacationing and how he immediately recoiled from the incense, crystals, goddess posters, and bookshelves labeled "Transcendence" and "Healing." On the same street he discovered a bookstore with a cigarette-smoking clerk and familiar genres: fiction, poetry. While one store shouted spiritual slogans and quick fixes, the other invited his soul to travel the gritty mysteries of characters, dialog, landscape, and story. "And it occurred to me that the form of spirituality I trust most comes directly from the sensual mass of life itself." Indeed, the host of heavenly voices in this anthology seems to rise from the complicated "sensual mass" called life. Bestselling author Brett Lott speaks of Oprah selecting Jewel for her book club and how it set in motion a series of humiliating lessons. In "Stillbirth," Leah Konselik Lebec reckons with the death of her 28-week-old son in utero. Some essays rise from a seeker's wonderment, such as Valerie Martin's essay "Being St. Francis." There are the occasional dry spots, but they remind readers that spirituality is not an entertainment industry. Rather, it is a reverent process born out of the willingness to listen and pay close attention. Other contributors include Terry Tempest Williams, Thomas Moore, and Pattiann Rogers. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2002by Philip Zaleski , Natalie GoldbergISBN 0060506032 (0-06-050603-2)
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The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Timesby Philip Zaleski , Carol ZaleskiISBN 0195119339 (0-19-511933-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Gifts of the Spirit: Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditionsby Daniel Goleman, Philip Zaleski , Paul KaufmanISBN 0060697024 (0-06-069702-4)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Gifts of the Spirit: Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditionsby Philip Zaleski , Paul KaufmanISBN 0060697016 (0-06-069701-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Ordinary Graces : Christian Teachings on the Interior Lifeby Lorraine Kisly, Philip ZaleskiISBN 0609806181 (0-609-80618-1)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordinary Graces : Christian Teachings on the Interior Life'Book summary:"I wanted to find the living core of [the Christian] tradition", the editor of this collection has said. As publisher of the excellent Buddhist periodical Tricycle, and as editor and publisher of Parabola magazine, Kisly has had her hand in shaping two of the most informative (and formative) spiritual journals of recent times, which should make her well qualified for the journey. And here she has indeed assembled a rich and challenging collection of Christian texts, with a particularly strong representation from Eastern Orthodoxy. We get not only the usual suspects (Merton, Augustine, Wesley, Newman, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Julian of Norwich) but also Paul Evdokimov, Anthony Bloom, Nicholas Berdyaev and Theophan the Recluse, along with passages from the great Medieval mystics of the Western church: Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Jan Van Ruusbroec and Catherine of Sienna, among many others.
Arranged in 10 "cycles", the brief selections (ranging from a paragraph to a few pages) move from an emphasis on the natural world through discussions of loving one's neighbour and the nature of sin to concluding cycles on "Holy Fire"--the dwelling of the divine in us--and the paradox of "Having Nothing, Possessing All Things". What we discover throughout is that the "ordinary graces" of the title are in fact available to all, and are indeed ordinary, even though they demand everything from us. Surrender is the book's underlying message: not a new one for a Christian audience, but one rarely expressed with such passion and depth as in the writings represented here. Readers already familiar with Kathleen Norris' The Cloister Walk and the anthologies of Stephen Mitchell, such as The Enlightened Heart, will find rich--if challenging--rewards here as well. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Prayer: A Historyby Philip Zaleski , Carol ZaleskiISBN 0618152881 (0-618-15288-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayer: A History'Book summary:"This is the most stunning book on prayer that I have ever read. It will become the benchmark for every other work on the subject, present or future. The Zaleskis' massive scholarship, catholicity of interests, and clarity of presentation make this a volume to hold close to both the heart and the head." -- Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours This landmark book presents prayer in all its richness and variety throughout history, across traditions, and around the globe. Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives changed by prayer and on great works of literature and art inspired by it, Philip and Carol Zaleski map the vast world of prayer from the sacred pipe to the rosary, from Paleolithic cave art to Pentecostal revivals. They reveal the fascinating experiences of such great and sometimes surprising figures as Emily Dickinson, Bill W., Teresa of Ávila, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Samuel Johnson, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Examining prayer as petition, thanksgiving, adoration, contemplation, ecstasy, magic, and sacrifice, the Zaleskis probe the language of prayer, the fruits of prayer, its controversies, and its prospects for the future. Prayer is an informative, accessible, and entertaining narrative that will appeal to an audience of all faiths. The Zaleskis have created a work that will be the standard for years to come. Philip Zaleski is the editor of the Best American Spiritual Writing series, author of The Recollected Heart, and coeditor, with Carol Zaleski, of The Book of Heaven. He is a senior editor at Parabola and a research associate in religion at Smith College. Carol Zaleski is the author of Otherworld Journeys and The Life of the World to Come, and coeditor of The Book of Heaven. She contributes a monthly column to Christian Century and is a professor of religion at Smith College. "Prayer: A History is not only a fabulous, very readable, immensely informative and (I would even say) 'inspirational' volume. [via]
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The Recollected Heart: A Monastic Retreat With Philip Zaleskiby Philip ZaleskiISBN 0060697814 (0-06-069781-4)
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