Common Era: Best New Writings on Religion, Vol. 2 - Steven Scholl - Paperback

Common Era is a comprehensive annual anthology collecting the most innovative recent articles on religion by the most outstanding thinkers in the field. Editor Steven Scholl has brought together a heavenly feast of essays that span the globe, covering the great faith traditions along with new religious movements, ranging from Hinduism to the cult of Elvis Presley.Common Era mixes humor and scholarly analysis, fiction and nonfiction, meditations on the sacred and cartoons. Politics, theology, mysticism, gender relations, convergences and divergences, the claims of science and theology, and contemporary culture wars all find their place in this compelling anthology. One of the most stimulating and timely anthologies in print, this is a book that will challenge, enlighten and educate. Contributors include Michael Lerner, Rupert Sheldrake, Ken Wilber, Karen Armstrong, Barry Lopez, the Dalai Lama, Reynolds Price and Larry Dossey, among others.Following the success of Common Era, Vol. 1, Harper San Francisco published a competing anthology on religion, edited by Philip Zaleski (Best Spiritual Writing of 1998). It differs from Common Era in that it is more literary than topical, and it lacks Common Era's variety of subject matter.Scholl, Steven is the author of 'Common Era: Best New Writings on Religion, Vol. 2 - Steven Scholl - Paperback' with ISBN 9781883991326 and ISBN 1883991323.