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Title: The Spirit Lives

The Spirit Lives

A Personal Journey from Loss to Understanding through Religious Experience

by David H. Turner (Author)
©2002 Monographs LX, 186 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

The Spirit Lives recounts the author’s struggle with the death of his young son and his subsequent journeying in search of stability and meaning. During his encounters with Christian monasticism, Balinese Hinduism, a variety of traditions in north India, Japanese Zen Buddhism, and Native Canadian religion, he experiences firsthand what Aboriginal people in Australia had been trying to teach him for more than a generation: The spirit lives. It sustains us. It moves us to our finest moments.

Details

Pages
LX, 186
Publication Year
2002
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820457611
Language
English
Keywords
death meaning Hinduism Buddhism
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. LX, 186 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

David H. Turner (Author)

The Author: David Howe Turner has been working with Aboriginal people in Australia since 1969. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of Trinity College as well as the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. His previous books with Lang include Life Before Genesis, Return to Eden, Afterlife Before Genesis, and Genesis Regained.

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