Sentences with phrase «book of pilgrimage»

By comparison to other medieval Western portrayals of Islam, Riccoldo's Book of Pilgrimage is a fresh, realistic, and perceptive portrait of Islam as it was practiced in the lands of its birth.

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And perhaps I may be permitted to note two recent books of my own: Roman Pilgrimage: The Stations Churches (Basic Books), co-authored with Elizabeth Lev and my son Stephen, and Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossrbooks of my own: Roman Pilgrimage: The Stations Churches (Basic Books), co-authored with Elizabeth Lev and my son Stephen, and Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (CrossrBooks), co-authored with Elizabeth Lev and my son Stephen, and Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossroad).

I've never recommended an eBook before, but I'll happily note that the glorious color in the eBook edition of Roman Pilgrimage may yet convert me to reading -(at - least - some - books)- on - a-tablet, a confession this veteran paper guy never expected to make.

: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America — a fantastic book that is part - memoir, part investigative analysis.

Meanwhile, 50,900 adults make the pilgrimage to Notre Dame for a Pentecostal rally, a teen - age guru turns on young people from coast to coast, and demand rises for books that run the gamut from thin prayer guides to thick encyclopedias of theology.

Foster's book explains the biblical basis behind this idea, and recounts many of his own pilgrimage stories.

Though a number of location descriptions overlap substantially with Webb - Mitchell's previously published material — and it is unsettling that a major source he repeatedly cites to explain and define pilgrimage is a popular lightweight inspirational book — his is a voice that needs to be heard.

In what is perhaps the last classic Protestant treatment of sanctification, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian is converted one sixth of the way through the book and the balance is devoted to his pilgrimage.

Five books on the practice of «pilgrimage» are reviewed.

These books give an invitation to deeper and richer pursuits in the potential of religious pilgrimages.

It is part of «The Ancient Practices Series» of which, I have previously read two other books (the volumes on Pilgrimage and Sabbath).

And, if I may note my own two recent offerings: The revised and expanded Letters to a Young Catholic (Basic Books) is intended for the young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-book.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome — all of Lent and Easter Week — preparing a book that would allow readers to make the city's ancient Lenten station church pilgrimage at home.

The striking works of Pratt, India and Its Faiths (1915) and A Pilgrimage of Buddhism (1928) did much to make these religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers; for Pratt had a gift not only of brilliance but of extraordinary human sympathy.10 These are clear instances of the increasing mobility of modern man: each book was written as the result of travel in the East.

There is a certain disproportion here» unlike in the rest of this book where the proportions of the admixture of confession and of pilgrimage are just about right.

The little book under review here contains an account of Cobb's encounter with the limits of nature and history, and of his pilgrimage into a new activist, pro-ecological stance.

Listen - alikes: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer and narrated by a full cast (Blackstone Audio); The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and narrated by Stephen Fry (Books on Tape); The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce and narrated by Jim Broadbent (Books on Tape).

In the latest book from Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), which was our January 2018 Top Pick in Fiction, a vinyl record shop owner discovers the possibility of love.

Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love — and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was short - listed for the Commonwealth Book Prize... More about Rachel Joyce

Other stand - alone books in the Miller's Creek novels: Texas Roads A Path Less Traveled The Way of Grace Pilgrimage of Promise Crossroads And don...

By these new means of writing stories and reading stories, we can all travel together, a pilgrimage of strangers at first, but learning that we share a common road through the books we read together.

One of my highlights was visiting the Book of Kells at Trinity College Library and of course, no trip is complete without a pilgrimage to the Guinness Storehouse.

Phil Cousineau Author, The Art of Pilgrimage and The Book of Roads

«When I think of Final Fantasy, I think of these grand experiences: long, epic journeys and pilgrimages with new faces and places at every turn,» says Alexa Ray Corriea, who is working on an upcoming book - length examination of Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts II.

This year's pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati's 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, not only for the main events, but for the many other surprises, some in unconventional venues like Tableaux Parisiens, an exhibition of art from and about Paris in an old church called The Do Right Hall, Patrick Keesey at the Marfa Country Clinic, Valerie Arber at the Thunderbird Lodge, and Charles Mary Kubricht at The Marfa Book Company.

In her book Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), environmentalist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer describes her experience as both a biologist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in terms of a pilgrimage: «Beneath the richness of [scientific] vocabulary and its descriptive power, something is missing, the same something that swells around you and in you when you listen to the world.»

In 1962, Raphael published a book titled, «A Painter's Pilgrimage,» which is illustrated with his drawings of details from Old Master paintings and sympathetic pencil sketches of European artists.

Jane Robinson's book Hearts and Minds (2018), a history of the Great Pilgrimage, describes suffragists being bombarded with rotten potatoes and eggs, maggot - riddled dead rats, stones and pieces of broken brick.

I read a lot of fiction: Richard Ford's award - winning Canada which actually has very little to do with our country; Rachel Joyce's delightful The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and his Enemies: A Love Story; M.G. Vassanji's wonderful The Book of Secrets; Israeli - Arab writer Sayed Kashua's biting but hilarious Dancing Arabs; Ian McEwan's masterful The Children Act whose protagonist is a 59 year - old female judge; Richard Wagamese's beautiful Keeper»n Me; and Philip Slayton's naughty and fun Bay Street: A Novel (lest people think it a work of non-fiction).