Living in Godless Times

by Leonard, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780863153419
• ISBN10: 0863153410
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Floris Books

Summary

Open a newspaper at random and you will read news of God's funeral. With this opening statement, Alison Leonard launches her absorbing collection of interviews, exploring paths to a more spiritual life as practised by a group of modern, independently-minded people. Drawn from a variety of spiritual and religious backgrounds, each provides a personal insight into their search for deeper meaning through personal experience, whilst facing the challenge of a seemingly Godless modern culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The decline of religion and the rise of spirituality	p. 7
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Spiritualizing everything	p. 20
Raficq Abdulla: Things that unfold to delight	p. 35
David Banks: Living where the heart is	p. 50
Benjamin Zephaniah: My God, your God	p. 65
Dayachitta: Against the odds, a new world out of the old	p. 80
Adam Curle: From the Somme to the Hydra	p. 95
Naomi Gryn: A true maverick	p. 110
Marian Partington: A precious treasure very difficult to find	p. 127
June Raymond: At the still point of the turning world	p. 144
Brian Thorne: A secular priest?	p. 160
Mehr Fardoonji: Walking through paradoxical gardens	p. 176
Anne Gray: Awareness of other worlds	p. 191
Rose Hacker: Socialist in the quantum soup	p. 208
Eric Maddern: The land, the dreaming, and how to be a man	p. 224
Kathy Jones: Embodying the Goddess	p. 238
Gordon MacLellan: Dancing between worlds	p. 253
Afterword: A personal response	p. 269
Endnotes	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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