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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness.At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI devoted himself to the practice. From traveling to India...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A former NBC newsperson and Meet the Press moderator explores various world traditions to further his own understanding of faith, describing his upbringing in an interfaith household, his visits to myriad houses of worship and his interviews with forefront religious leaders.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular. But some people regularly cross religious boundaries. These "spiritually fluid" people celebrate complex religious bonds, and in the process they blur social categories, evoke prejudice, and complicate religious communities. Their presence sparks questions: How and why do people become spiritually fluid? Are they just confused or unable to commit?...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist takes on the fundamental issue of the non-religious by setting out on a journey across the frontier of American secular life, seeking guidance in science and the humanities, talking to noted scholars and wrestling with her own family{u2019}s attempts to find meaning and connection after religion.
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Becoming Gandhi, New York Times journalist and author Perry Garfinkel takes readers on his multiyear quest to trace the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi-to both understand his life and to see if his code of living might be possible in today's world"--
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling fear of death into her enchanting yoga teacher, Indra--a woman who seems to have found it all: love, self, and God. But things don't go quite as expected.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys--one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag's journeys are made in search...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A journalist and conflicted young mother describes her travels around the world in search of the most extraordinary natural phenomena, during which she discovers unforgettable truths about motherhood, spirituality, and the beauty of nature.
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