Secular Days, Sacred Moments
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Secular Days, Sacred Moments by Robert Coles
No writer or public intellectual of our era has been as sensitive to the role of faith in the lives of ordinary Americans as Robert Coles. Though not religious in the conventional sense, Coles is unparalleled in his astute understanding and respect for the relationship between secular life and sacredness, which cuts across his large body of work. Drawing inspiration from figures like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, Coles’s extensive writings explore the tug of war between faith and doubt. As Coles himself admits, the “back-and-forthness between faith and doubt is the story of my life.” These thirty-one thought-provoking essays are drawn from Coles’s weekly column in the Catholic publication America. In them, he turns his inquisitive lens on a range of subjects and issues, from writers and painters to his recent reading and film viewing, contemporary events and lingering controversies, recollections of past and present mentors, events of his own daily life, and ordinary encounters with students, patients, neighbours, and friends. Addressing moral questions openly and honestly with a rare combination of rectitude and authorial modesty, these essays position Coles as a preeminent, durable, and trusted voice in the continuing national conversation over religion, civic life, and moral purpose.
Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and a recipient of the prestigious Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honour.
David Cooper specialises in public culture studies and rhetoric in the public interest. His essays, articles, and commentaries on education for democracy, service-learning in the humanities, the land grant tradition, and civic education and the language arts have appeared in numerous journals and national magazines such as the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, American Behavioral Scientist, About Campus, Composition Chronicle and Higher Education Exchange. Cooper edits reports and proceedings for the Bipartisan Urban Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Partnership for Economic Development. He is a member of the faculty of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University
David Cooper specialises in public culture studies and rhetoric in the public interest. His essays, articles, and commentaries on education for democracy, service-learning in the humanities, the land grant tradition, and civic education and the language arts have appeared in numerous journals and national magazines such as the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, American Behavioral Scientist, About Campus, Composition Chronicle and Higher Education Exchange. Cooper edits reports and proceedings for the Bipartisan Urban Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Partnership for Economic Development. He is a member of the faculty of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University
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| ISBN 13 | 9781611860733 |
| ISBN 10 | 1611860733 |
| Title | Secular Days, Sacred Moments |
| Author | Robert Coles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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